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Surrealism and the Object SURREALISM AND THE OBJECT 30 OCTOBER 2013 - 3 MARCH 2014 Surrealism occupies a singular place A second chapter in the history of in the history of the 20th century avant- Surrealism began in 1927 when its garde because of its international most active members joined the influence and longevity. With French Communist Party. ”Le Surréalisme et l'objet“, the first The Surrealists' commitment to this large-scale exhibition dedicated to political ideology implied absorbing the Surrealist sculpture, the Centre reality that formed the theoretical Pompidou invites visitors to see the and philosophical heart of movement in a new light. From Marcel Communism. Breton then called on Duchamps's readymades to Miró's Surrealists to found a ”physics of sculptures of the late 1960s, the poetry“. The Surrealist object asserted exhibition retraces the various stages this enduring consideration of reality. in the story of the Surrealist In militant Surrealism, it appeared as ”challenge“ to sculpture through the the obvious response to this new use of everyday objects. political and philosophical context. When it was founded in 1924, Through more than 200 works, the Surrealism's very name expressed its exhibition highlights key moments aim of surpassing the real. In his in this way of thinking, and its fertile founding Manifesto, André Breton posterity in contemporary art. called for a primarily tributary creation of an ”interior model“, where dreams, the subconscious and automatism in creation inspired a poetry designed to deny reality and throw it into turmoil. www.centrepompidou.fr READY-MADES AND MANNEQUINS ALBERTO GIACOMETTI Ten years before the creation of Surrealism, In the late Twenties, Alberto Giacometti joined the in 1914, Giorgio De Chirico and Marcel Duchamp circle formed around the journal Documents, invented two objects that were to gain enduring founded by primitive art historian Carl Einstein currency in the imagination of the movement. and the philosopher Georges Bataille. His works The former introduced the image of the then took on violent, sacrificial themes, typical of mannequin into his painting; the latter bought the the direction Bataille gave to his review. His latest bottle rack that became his first ready-made. sculptures, shown in the spring of 1930 at the From Hans Bellmer's Doll (1933-1934) to the Pierre Loeb gallery, impressed André Breton, dummies lining the “streets” of the 1938 who proposed that he join the Surrealists. “International Exhibition of Surrealism”, Giacometti took part in the group's events until mannequins made a regular appearance in 1935, producing object-sculptures inspired by the Surrealist events. The Manifesto of 1924 ”interior model“ Breton enjoined the artists of the presented the mannequin as one of the most group to submit to: ”For years, I only produced propitious objects for producing the “marvellous” the sculptures that came to my mind fully- sought by Surrealism, and for arousing the sense fledged, and I limited myself to reproducing them of “the uncanny” inspired in Sigmund Freud by his in space, without changing anything.“ (room 3) discovery of a doll in a tale by Hoffmann. In 1938, the Dictionnaire abrégé du surréalisme [shorter THE DOLL dictionary of Surrealism] made Duchamp's ready- made an “object raised to the dignity of a work of In the mid-Twenties, Hans Bellmer approached art by the artist's will alone”: the prototype of Lotte Pritzel, a wax doll-maker, who a few years a Surrealist object crystallising the dreams and earlier had been asked by the Viennese painter desires of its “inventor”. (room 1) Oskar Kokoschka to make a dummy as a substitute for Alma Mahler when she ended their relationship. At the beginning of the Thirties, OBJECTS WITH A SYMBOLIC a series of events led Bellmer to start work on his FUNCTION own Doll. In the winter of 1932, his mother sent him a case full of his childhood toys, including Dalí gave an initial definition to what he called some dolls with disjointed members. At the time ”Objects with a symbolic function“ in when Bellmer was moving closer to George Le Surréalisme au service de la révolution en 1931: Grosz, the painter of Dadaist automatons, he ”These objects, which lend themselves to a discovered the doll Olympia in Offenbach's opera minimum of mechanical functioning, are based based on the Tales of Hoffmann (The Sandman), on the fantasies and representations that can which brought Kokoschka's ”fetish“ to mind. arise from the performance of subconscious acts. He made his first doll, staging it in photographs […] Objects with a symbolic function leave no that were then reproduced in the journal place at all for formal preoccupations. They Minotaure in December 1934. A crucial landmark depend only on the amorous imagination of each in Surrealist ”mannequinerie“, Bellmer's Doll was person, and are extraplastic.“ Through its latent imbued with the erotic dimension associated with eroticism and form, more like a children's toy these female effigies, from the myth of Pygmalion than traditional sculpture, Alberto Giacometti's to modern silicone dolls. (room 4) Suspended Ball, discovered by Salvador Dalí and André Breton in the Pierre Loeb Gallery in 1930, prefigured this definition. (room 2) FOUND OBJECTS / ”EXPOSITION ”EXPOSITION INTERNATIONALE INTERNATIONALE DU DU SURRÉALISME“, 1938 SURRÉALISME“, 1933 The contestation of the traditional work of art, In the 1933 exhibition at the Pierre Colle Gallery, and the aim of inscribing Surrealism in the Surrealism affirmed the place now occupied by concrete world, as witness the proliferation of the object in the Surrealist imagination. Tristan objects, was also expressed by the conquest of Tzara rewrote the preface of the catalogue real space. This took the form of staging accompanying the exhibition: ”Unpleasant Surrealist exhibitions in a way that heralded the objects, chairs, drawings, sexes, paintings, art of the ”installation“. Marcel Duchamp, manuscripts, objects to sniff, automatic and enthroned as ”generator/arbiter“ of the 1938 unmentionable objects, wood, plasters, phobias, ”International Exhibition of Surrealism“ at the memories from the womb, elements of prophetic Galerie des Beaux-Arts, was in charge of the dreams, dematerialisations of desires […] Do you exhibition set and stage design. Each of the still remember that time when painting was sixteen participants was invited to ”dress“ a considered “an end in itself”? We have moved on mannequin taken from a department store from the period of individual exercises. […] Time window. These mannequins formed a line on passes. Through the emotional characters of either side of the Surrealist Street greeting the your meetings. Through the experimental visitors. (room 8) explorations of Surrealism. We don't want to build any more arks. As sincere partisans of the SURREALISM IN EXILE: better, we have tried, physically and morally, to THE OBJECT AS A CHALLENGE embellish the face of Paris a little. By turning our TO SCULPTURE backs on paintings.[…]“ (rooms 5 and 6) The Second World War drove the Surrealists into ”EXPOSITION SURRÉALISTE exile. André Breton, Max Ernst, André Masson, D’OBJETS“, 1936 Roberto Matta, Yves Tanguy and others moved to the United States. The Forties and the years that The ”Surrealist Exhibition of Objects“, shown at followed saw the appearance of a new generation the Charles Ratton Gallery in May 1936, was of sculptures, where the ordinary, everyday object dedicated to the quintessence of a Surrealism became the basic material in assemblages with the ability to transfigure and transmute constructed along the lines of the ”cadavre objects, and thereby reality itself. A far cry from exquis“ (the free juxtaposition of disparate any expertise or ”artistic genius“, the power of elements). Max Ernst produced anthropomorphic the designation ”Surrealist“ was the very subject creatures by assembling plaster moulds of of the exhibition. A high point in Surrealist domestic objects (bowls, plates and the like). thinking applied to the object, it was a kind of Alexander Calder's meeting with Joan Miró in apogee of a Surrealism expressed in its 1932 had led him to widen his formal vocabulary simultaneously poetic and theoretical purity. In to a register inspired by plants and animals. the showcase and on the walls, there was little or Apple Monster, 1938, made from apple tree no sign of the know-how or talent valued by the branches collected near his studio, humorously bourgeois aesthetic. Ready-mades temporarily evokes the Surrealists' fascination with removed from their functional anonymity, these monsters. With Bull's Head, 1942, resulting from objects defied all speculation or fetishism – like the assemblage of a bicycle saddle and René Magritte's Ceci n’est pas un morceau de handlebars, Pablo Picasso was one of the key fromage, which was taken to pieces at the end of protagonists of this process. (room 9) the exhibition, restoring the cheese cover to its original use. (room 7) ”LE SURRÉALISME EN 1947“ JOAN MIRÓ: SURREALISM IN EXHIBITION FULL SUNLIGHT The ”Surrealism in 1947“ exhibition, which Responding to the Surrealist call to found a opened on 7 July 1947 at the Maeght Gallery, ”physics of poetry“, Joan Miró briefly abandoned remained faithful to the principle of surpassing painting in 1929 to produce a series of art underlying the pre-war invention of the Constructions, in which Jacques Dupin saw Surrealist object. In the catalogue preface, André an undertaking that ”challenged a plastic tool too Breton wrote of the ”recent poetic and plastic easily dominated, after long immersion in works“, which ”have a power over minds that troubled waters: the mother-waters of the surpasses that of the work of art in every sense“. subconscious and dreams.“ These Constructions In 1947, this power was identified with the ability were a mixture of collage and ready-made. of these objects to act as the leaven of a new The group of sculptures Miró created in the mid- mythology.
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