From 19 Jan To 10 Apr 2022
ALBERTO GIACOMETTI / ANDRÉ BRETON. Surrealist friendships
Paris, France
At the Institut Giacometti
Giacometti spent five years with the Surrealist group (1930-1935), during which time he formed lasting friendships with Breton and other artists and intellectuals of the movement. The exhibition brings together several emblematic works from Giacometti's Surrealist period and those of his fellow artists: Hans Arp, Victor Brauner, Leonora Carrington, Salvador Dalí, Max Ernst, André Masson, Joan Miró, Meret Oppenheim, Pablo Picasso, Yves Tanguy, as well as documents relating to Claude Cahun, René Crevel, Lise Deharme, Paul Eluard, Georges Hugnet, Jacqueline Lamba and Tristan Tzara.
This exhibition sheds new light on the artistic, intellectual and friendly world around these two major figures of 20th century art.
A new exhibition presented at the Institut Giacometti, in collaboration with the Association Atelier André Breton and the Centre Pompidou, Musée national d'art moderne.
Curators: Serena Bucalo-Mussely, curator Fondation Giacometti.
In collaboration with Constance Krebs, Editorial Director, Association Atelier André Breton.
Images
Publications
Alberto Giacometti / André Breton. Surrealist friendships
Éditions Fage, Lyon, Fondation Giacometti, Paris 2022
194 pages
Language: French/English
Format: 23,6 x 17,1 x 1,8 cm
Price: 28 €
ISBN: 978 2 84975 699 7
Focus
07 Dec 2017
3. The surrealist experiment
Giacometti joined André Breton’s Surrealist movement in 1931, as an active member of Breton’s group, Giacometti in no time stood out as one of its rare sculptors. Despite his being expelled in February 1935, surrealist procedures continued to play an important part in his creative work: dreamlike visions, montage and assemblage, objects with metaphorical functions, and magical treatment of the figure.
08 Feb 2022
Jacqueline Lamba
First screening of the documentary film programme dedicated to surrealist artists and writers
15 Feb 2022
Yves Tanguy
Second screening of the documentary film programme dedicated to Surrealist artists and writers
01 Mar 2022
Victor Brauner
Third screening of the documentary film programme dedicated to Surrealist artists and writers
08 Mar 2022
Max Ernst
Fourth screening of the documentary film programme dedicated to Surrealist artists and writers
15 Mar 2022
Dora Maar
Fifth screening of the documentary film programme dedicated to Surrealist artists and writers
22 Mar 2022
Claude Cahun
Sixth screening of the documentary film programme dedicated to Surrealist artists and writers
05 Apr 2022
André Breton
Seventh screening of the documentary film programme dedicated to Surrealist artists and writers