The usual suspects appear in both shows: Man Ray, Yves Tanguy, Óscar Domínguez and, of course, Dalí, whose Dream Caused by the Flight of a Bee Around a Pomegranate a Second Before Awakening promotes the Thyssen show. The usual suspects appear in both shows: Man Ray, Yves Tanguy, Óscar Domínguez and, of course, Dalí
Then, like now, Piranesi's impossible architecture is not so different from Giorgio de Chirico's shapes, nor does Brassäi's photo of a germinating tuber differ too much from Arcimboldo's faces made of fruit.įirst shown in Nuremberg - from whose Germanisches Nationalmuseum most of the 200 exhibits come - the show is divided into 11 sections, each of which opens with a modern work before lurching back and forth in time and space - from France to Germany, the predominant countries, to Spain, home of names in such urgent need of recognition abroad as Maruja Mallo, José Caballero and Benjamín Palencia. Barr at the Museum of Modern Art in New York in 1936, which, for the first time, juxtaposed contemporary works with those by the likes of Hieronymus Bosch, Giuseppe Arcimboldo, Giovanni Battista Piranesi and Francisco de Goya with the aim of giving surrealism its own artistic genealogy. The latter aims to be a tribute to Fantastic Art, Dada, Surrealism, the legendary exhibition curated by Alfred H. Surrealism and the Dream at the Thyssen focuses on painting, film and sculpture, while Surrealists before Surrealism at the Fundación Juan March concentrates on "fantasy and the fantastic in prints, drawings and photography." Two new shows in Madrid are celebrating the achievements of the art movement that united the everyday with the inconceivable.
gorka lejarcegiĪfter the Reina Sofía's summer of Salvador Dalí comes an equally surrealist fall. A gallery-goer wanders past Objet qui rêve II (1938) by Victor Brauner at the Thyssen show.
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