Surrealismo
The major exhibition "Surrealism: Communicating Vessels", proposes a renewed aesthetic and literary perspective on surrealism, the fundamental artistic movement of the historical avant-gardes of the 20th century, through 120 works and language developed by its most prominent creators, both European and Latin American. The exhibition shows a selection of paintings, sculptures, drawings, photographs and objects from major artists, national or foreign, who developed the principles of surrealism: Salvador Dalí, Raúl Anguiano, Alberto Giacometti, Manuel Álvarez Bravo, Leonora Carrington, among others in Mexico. This carefully edited monograph published as catalogue of this exhibition brings together several essays by renowned specialists and scholars of the movement. Serge Fauchereau, Didier Ottinger and Juan Manuel Bonet approach surrealism from an historical perspective, linked to its origins as a vanguard in Europe, the territory where one of its pillars support the surrealist axis Paris-Mexico, which, Philippe Ollé-Laprune, deals with in turn. The impact of the movement found in Mexico an extremely rich panorama of works created here, as addressed by Fabienne Bradu and Solomon Grimberg. Surrealist imagery, the theory, the appreciation of the intelligence operating in liberty, its relationship with psychoanalysis, and other cultural support elements that structured surrealism are reflected by Mónica López Velarde, Helí Morales y Néstor A. Braunstein. Thus, this monograph is revealed not only as a precise approximation of the art movement from an updated perspective, but as an essential vehicle that travels the communicating vessels that link those territories and moments in which the surrealism shined the most.