Surréalisme — Centre Georges Pompidou — Exhibition — Slash Paris

Ends in 24 days: September 4, 2024 → January 13, 2025

Surréalisme en tous lieux et pour toujours ? Surréalisme au Centre Pompidou En hommage au centenaire de la publication du Manifeste du Surréalisme, le Centre Pompidou organise une présentation d’œuvres, à partir du manuscrit d’André Breton conservé à la Bibliothèque Nationale. Paris a été le creuset du mouvement, devenu une aventure poétique et artistique qui s’est répandu aux confins de la planète. Les œuvres et les documents proviennent de toute part, à côté de ceux détenus par le MNAM, qui en compte plus d’un millier.

Retracing over 40 years of exceptional creative effervescence, from 1924 to 1969, “Surrealism. The centenary exhibition” marks the anniversary of this movement, which was born in 1924 with the publication of André Breton’s founding Manifesto.

The exhibition is designed like a maze, radiating around a central “drum” housing the original manuscript of the Manifesto, an exceptional loan from the Bibliothèque nationale de France.

A multimedia screening accompanies the discovery of this unique document, providing insight into its creation and meaning. The exhibition is organised both chronologically and thematically, structured into 14 sections that evoke literary figures who inspired the movement (Lautréamont, Lewis Carroll, Sade, etc.) and the poetic principles that structured its imagery (the artist as a medium, dreams, the philosopher’s stone, the forest, etc.).

In line with the multidisciplinary principle that characterises the Centre Pompidou’s exhibitions, “Surrealism. The centenary exhibition” combines paintings, drawings, films, photographs and literary documents. The exhibition presents the movement’s iconic works from major international public and private collections: The Great Masturbator by Salvador Dalí (Museo Reina Sofía), Personal Values by René Magritte (San Francisco Museum of Modern Art), The Child’s Brain (Moderna Museet, Stockholm) and The Song of Love (MoMA, New York) by Giorgio de Chirico, The Great Forest by Max Ernst (Kunstmuseum Basel), Dog Barking at the Moon by Joan Miró (Philadelphia Museum of Art), and more.