Surrealism, Center Pompidou
du 4 septembre 2024 au 13 janvier 2025
André BretonDesigned like a labyrinth, the “Surrealism” exhibition is an unprecedented dive into the exceptional creative effervescence of the surrealist movement, born in 1924 with the publication of André Breton’s founding Manifesto.
Combining paintings, drawings, films, photographs and literary documents, the exhibition presents the works of the movement's emblematic artists (Salvador Dalí, René Magritte, Giorgio de Chirico, Max Ernst, Joan Miró) but also those of female surrealists (including Leonora Carrington, Ithell Colquhoun, Dora Maar).
Both chronological and thematic, the journey is punctuated by 14 chapters evoking the literary figures who inspired the movement (Lautréamont, Lewis Carroll, Sade...) and the poetic principles which structure its imagination (the artist-medium, the dream, the philosopher's stone, the forest...).
At the heart of the exhibition, a central “drum” housing the original manuscript of the Manifesto, an exceptional loan from the National Library of France. A multimedia projection accompanies the discovery of this unique document, shedding light on its genesis and its meaning.