Select language
Surrealism - Works on Paper
11 November 2011 - 20 January 2012
René Magritte
La réponse inatendue and Les affinités électives
1933
Ink and pen on paper
10,4 x 5,6 cm and 9,2 x 6,3 cm
© 2011, ProLitteris, Zurich
This year the theme of Interart's autumn exhibition is SURREALIST drawing, reflecting the creativity and revolutionary spirit that inspired the main players of this major 20th century movement.
Some thirty works on paper will illustrate the extensive experimentation of this movement which attributed a fundamental place to dreams and the unconscious as well as inventing many new and often playful techniques like frottage, grattage, decalcomania and collage. The famous Exquisite Corpse (Cadavres exquis) method will also be documented by some examples of these drawings produced by a number of different artists during lively evenings together. These creative works, sometimes involving numerous techniques, often played a fundamental role for the members of the surrealist movement; for the painters, poets and writers who took part in them, they were a rich platform for experimentation and discovery.
Some of the movement's leading artists will be represented by one, or several, of their works on paper, namely, Hans Bellmer, Victor Brauner, Óscar Domínguez, Max Ernst, Jacques Herold, Georges Hugnet, Wifredo Lam, René Magritte, André Masson, Roberto Matta, Francis Picabia, Jackson Pollock, Jindrich Styrsky et Yves Tanguy.