The Centre Pompidou Celebrates the Centenary of Surrealism With Its Closing Exhibition
Recounting over forty years of exceptional creative effervescence, from 1924 to 1969, “Surrealism” celebrates the centenary of the movement, born with André Breton’s publication Surrealist Manifesto. Curated by Didier Ottinger, Assistant Director of the Musée National d’Art Moderne, and Marie Sarré, curator in the Centre Pompidou’s modern collections department, the exhibition revolves around a central space which features the original manuscript of the Surrealist Manifesto, an exceptional loan by the Bibliothèque Nationale de France. Chronological and thematic, the exhibition is organized around 13 chapters evoking the literary figures that inspired the movement (Lautréamont, Lewis Carroll, Sade…) and the myths that structure its poetic imagination (the artist-medium, the dream, the philosopher’s stone, the forest…). True to the multidisciplinary approach that characterizes the Centre Pompidou’s exhibitions, “Surrealism” combines paintings, drawings, films, photographs and literary documents.
During the exceptional exhibition opening, we met Sophie Calle, Annette Messager, Laurent Grasso, Blanca Li, Sarah Andelman, Rosalie Varda Demy, Adel Abdessemed and Diane Pernet.
Photos: Michaël Huard
