Surrealism and Magic: Enchanted Modernity

Published on 19 May 2022, by Virginie Chuimer-Layen

With more than twenty artists and ninety works from around forty public and private collections, this exhibition explores the Surrealists’ taste for esotericism, alchemy and the occult.

Victor Brauner (1903-1966), The Surrealist, 1947, oil on canvas, 60 x 45 cm/24 x... Surrealism and Magic: Enchanted Modernity

Victor Brauner (1903-1966), The Surrealist, 1947, oil on canvas, 60 x 45 cm/24 x 18 in. Peggy Guggenheim collection, Venice (Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, New York).
© Victor Brauner, 2022 by SIAE

These many themes have been overlooked since the exhibition “Surrealism in 1947”, at the Galerie Maeght in Paris. In six rooms, the rich itinerary alternates between highlights on iconic painters— Giorgio De Chirico and his metaphysical painting, Kurt…

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