Watch a video preview of the exhibition, “Surrealism Beyond Borders,” on view at The Met from October 11, 2021–January 30, 2022. Nearly from its inception, Surrealism has had an international scope, but knowledge of the movement has been formed primarily through a Western European focus. This exhibition reconsiders the true “movement” of Surrealism across boundaries of geography and chronology—and within networks that span Eastern Europe to the Caribbean, Asia to North Africa, and Australia to Latin America. Including almost eight decades of work produced by artists from over 45 countries, “Surrealism Beyond Borders” offers a fresh appraisal of these collective concerns and exchanges—as well as historical, national, and local distinctions—that recasts appreciation of this most revolutionary and globe-spanning movement.
Learn more about the exhibition: https://www.metmuseum.org/exhibitions/listings/2021/surrealism-beyond-borders
The exhibition is made possible by the Barrie A. and Deedee Wigmore Foundation.
Additional support is provided by the Placido Arango Fund, the Gail and Parker Gilbert Fund, Alice Cary Brown and W.L. Lyons Brown, the John Pritzker Family Fund, and The International Council of The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
The exhibition is supported by an indemnity from the Federal Council on the Arts and the Humanities.
It is organized by The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Tate Modern.
Credits:
Managing Producer: Kate Farrell
Producer: Bryan Martin
Production Coordinator: Lela Jenkins
Editor: Stephanie Wuertz
Original Music: Austin Fisher
Artwork and Images:
René Magritte © 2021 C. Herscovici / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Photo: The Art Institute of Chicago / Art Resource, NY
Jan Švankmajer © Athanor Ltd.
Salvador Dalí © 2021 Salvador Dalí, Fundació Gala-Salvador Dalí, Artists Rights Society. Photo © Tate
“Le monde au temps des surréalistes.” In “Le surréalisme en 1929.” Variétés (Brussels), June 1929, pp. 26–27. Image © Metropolitan Museum of Art, photo by Mark Morosse
Kaveh Golestan © Kaveh Golestan Estate; Courtesy Archaeology of the Final Decade
Antonio Berni Courtesy Galería Sur Photography credit: Eduardo Baldizán
Byon Yeongwon National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea
Malangatana Ngwenya Photo © Tate
Dušan Marek © National Film and Sound Archive of Australia. © Art Gallery of New South Wales
Françoise Sullivan © 2021 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / SOCAN, Montreal
El Janabi Collection of Abdel Kader El Janabi
Hector Hyppolite Courtesy of The Museum of Everything
Wifredo Lam © 2021 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris. Photography by Erik Gould, courtesy of the Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence.
Marko Ristić Courtesy of Museum of Contemporary Art, Belgrade
André Breton © 2021 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris.
André Breton © 2021 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris. Digital Image © The Museum of Modern Art/Licensed by SCALA / Art Resource, NY
Helen Lundeberg © The Feitelson / Lundeberg Art Foundation Image credit line: © The Regents of The University of California Photography by Fredrik Nilsen
Salvador Dalí © 2021 Salvador Dalí, Fundació Gala-Salvador Dalí, Artists Rights Society. Photo: Philadelphia Museum of Art: The Louise and Walter Arensberg Collection, 1950, 1950-134-41
Leonora Carrington © 2021 Estate of Leonora Carrington / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
Enrico Baj Courtesy Fondazione Marconi, Milan - Archivio Baj, Vergiate
Dorothea Tanning © 2021 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris. Photo © Tate
Enrique Grau, Gabriel Garciá Márquez , Alvaro Cepeda Samudio, and Luis Vicens Courtesy Fundación Patrimonio Fílmico Colombiano and Tita Cepeda
Skunder (Alexander) Boghossian © 2021 Skunder Boghossian. Courtesy of the North Carolina Museum of Art
Koga Harue Photo: MOMAT/DNPartcom
Claude Cahun © Jersey Heritage
Len Lye Courtesy of the Len Lye Foundation and Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision
Joan Miró © Successió Miró / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris 2021
Marcel Jean © 2021 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris. Photo © MAD, Paris / Jean Tholance
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Surrealism Beyond Borders
This exhibition reconsiders the true “movement” of Surrealism across boundaries of geography and chronology—and within networks that span Eastern Europe to the Caribbean, Asia to North Africa, and Australia to Latin America.
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