The Pompidou Centre in Paris is showing off the treasures from one of its richest collections with “Surrealism and the Objectâ€.
They include Dali’s ‘The Lobster Telephone’ and ‘Aphrodisiac Jacket’, (1936), Man Ray’s “Indestructible Objectâ€, (1923), Victor Brauner’s ‘Wolf Table’, (1947), and Giacometti’s “Surrealist Table†(1933)
There also works from, among others, Ernst, Miro, and Duchamp,
Surrealism was at first a literary movement, experimenting with language free from conscious control. This soon extended to the plastic arts, photography and cinema, and exploded outwards from the-then world capital of the arts, Paris.
“Andre Breton once said that the surrealist objects are expressions of materialised dreams. They are a sort of parasite, objects that will disturb our relation with the reality. They are here to introduce a discordant element into reality. A disruptive element that will rip the curtain off reality and unveil what interests the Surrealists, which is : desire, th
