Forty Years of Surrealism

The starting point is - ça va sans dire - the anniversary of the publication of the Surrealism Manifesto by André Breton in 1924. But describing an artistic movement of this importance which, moreover, lasted for over 40 years and which included artists of the caliber of Joan Miró, Max Ernst, René Magritte or Salvador Dalí is not the simplest undertaking. Surrealism. The Centenary Exhibition combines paintings, drawings, films, photographs and literary documents, in a path that follows the chronological and thematic criteria in parallel, offering a wide variety of ideas ranging from literary inspirations (Lautréamont, Lewis Carroll, Sade to name the most important) to the in-depth study of some poetic principles that constituted its imagery, such as the dream or symbolic images such as the forest or the Philosopher's Stone. On display, on loan from major international museums, are some of the best-known works of the surrealist movement, among which stand out: Child's Brain and The Song of Love by Giorgio de Chirico, The Great Masturbator by Salvador Dalí, Personal Values ​​by René Magritte, The Great Forest by Max Ernst, Dog Barking at the Moon by Joan Miró.