Meret Oppenheim – Ma gouvernante (My Nurse), 1936
Metal, shoes, twine, paper 14 x 21 x 33 cm
Moderna Museet, Stockholm © Adagp, Paris 2013
Metal, shoes, twine, paper 14 x 21 x 33 cm
Moderna Museet, Stockholm © Adagp, Paris 2013
LE SURRÉALISME ET L’OBJET
30 October 2013 – 3 March 2014
Centre Pompidou – 75191 Paris cedex 04
With “Le Surréalisme et l’objet”, the first large-scale
exhibition devoted to Surrealist sculptural techniques, the Centre
Pompidou invites visitors to take a new look at a major avant-garde
movement of the 20th century at a time when its historical importance is
still highly topical, and its influence on contemporary art
increasingly evident.
From Marcel Duchamp’s first ready-made – the famous “porte-bouteille”
(bottle rack) of 1914 – to Miró’s sculptures of the late Sixties, the
exhibition looks back over the various stages of the Surrealists’ daring
stance in sculpture through the use of everyday objects.
Didier Ottinger, the exhibition curator and assistant director of the
Musée national d’art moderne, takes a fresh look at the Surrealist
movement. He explores the idea that in 1927,
with the endorsement of “dialectic materialism” by André Breton and the
movement’s most influential figures, the Surrealists focused on the
object as a response to an ideological situation that denied the power
of dreams and the subconscious. As the “objectivisation of the dream”,
the object, in their eyes, was an effective means for poetically
subverting reality.
The history of the Surrealist object starts with Alberto Giacometti’s
“Boule suspendue” (1930-1931). A look back at the “Surrealist
Exhibition of Objects” staged at the Charles Ratton Gallery in May 1936
is the high point of the exhibition. The sculptures produced during the
Second World War by Max Ernst, Alexander Calder and Pablo Picasso
illustrate the place now occupied by the object in Surrealist art
through the use of a sculptural technique similar to the art of
assemblage.
Through more than 200 works, including numerous masterpieces by Giacometti, Dalí, Calder, Picasso, Miró, Max Ernst and Man Ray, “Le Surréalisme et l’objet” highlights key moments in this way of thinking, and its fertile posterity in contemporary art.
There are several Centre Pompidou publications going with the exhibition: the Dictionnaire de l’objet surréaliste,
a dictionary-catalogue of 384 pages with 203 illustrations and 72
documentary images, edited by exhibition curator Didier Ottinger and
co-published with Gallimard; Surréalisme (one of the
“Mouvements” collection) by Didier Ottinger: a chronological exploration
of Surrealism with a selection of the movement’s key works; an
illustrated album of the exhibition “Le Surréalisme et l’objet”: a tour
of the exhibition in images devised by Emmanuel Guigon, director of the
Musées de Besançon, and lastly, an album for younger audiences: Le Surréalisme à l’usage des enfants.
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amalia di Lanno
