London International Surrealist Exhibition
The International Surrealist Exhibition was an exhibition of Surrealist artists, W.1 took place from 11 June to 4 July 1936 in the New Burlington Galleries, Burlington Gardens in London, and introduced the first surrealism exhibition in England. You got a great success, reaching the skeptical British public and has been recognized internationally in art criticism.
The exhibition
The organizers of the surrealist art exhibition were: Hugh Sykes Davies, David Gascoyne, Humphrey Jennings, Rupert Lee, Diana Brinton Lee, Henry Moore, Paul Nash, Roland Penrose, Herbert Read, ELT Mesens and André Breton, Paul Éluard, Georges Hugnet and Man Ray.
The success of the exhibition showed in his attendance. The queues at the input switch on the opening day were so long that the traffic came to a standstill in Piccadilly. During the three -week exhibition period over 30,000 visitors came. The organizers offered to the public except the works exhibited lectures on the theories and intentions of Surrealism. On display were 392 works by 58 artists from 14 countries, including, for example, Constantin Brancusi, Salvador Dalí, Marcel Duchamp, Alberto Giacometti, Paul Klee, René Magritte, Joan Miró, Francis Picabia, Pablo Picasso, Man Ray and Max Ernst. Among the Surrealist Meret Oppenheim objects themselves Breakfast was in the fur.
The catalog accompanying the exhibition contained Posts by André Breton, the theoretician of the Surrealist group, translated by David Gascoyne and Herbert Read, currently the UK's best known art historian.
The following lectures accompanied the exhibition program:
Caused a stir Salvador Dalí's lecture. He had worn a deep sea diving suit during his speech, introduced a cue stick with it and was accompanied by two borzoi. The speech was about a philosophy student who ate a cloakroom together with the mirror over a period of six months. It was Gascoyne, the Dalí freed from the helmet in which this was to be heard in his speech and barely threatened to suffocate.
In September 1936, the International Surrealist Bulletin, Number 4, published by the British Surrealist group with photographic portraits and contributions of the exhibiting artists and organizers appeared.
The following exhibitions in the 1930s
On the London Surrealist exhibition was followed in May of the same year, the exposure Surréaliste d' Objets at the Galerie Charles Ratton. This put a special meaning to the object of art and on the basis that the primitivism, the fetishes and the mathematical models. These exhibitions still shown in the usual form of presentation. 1938, the Exposition Internationale du Surréalisme in Paris, Breton in the gallery Beaux-Arts of surrealist art for the first time created a framework in which the presentation was even regarded as surrealistic production.