Klee, Giacometti and many other protagonists at major Swiss Surrealism retrospective in Lugano

The Museo d’arte della Svizzera italiana in Lugano is offering a major retrospective dedicated to SwissSurrealism from February 10 to June 16, 2019, in collaboration with theAargauer Kunsthaus. The exhibition entitled Surrealism Switzerland aims to analyze the influence that the Surrealist movement had on Swiss artistic production, as well as the Swiss exponents of this movement, including Hans Arp, Alberto Giacometti, Paul Klee, and Meret Oppenheim.

The exhibition focuses on the historical manifestations of Surrealism up to the late 1950s. One hundred works by the most important Swiss exponents of Surrealism, starting with the two indispensable precursors, Hans Arp and Paul Klee, and then continuing with all the major Swiss artists who influenced Surrealism, either as actual members of the Parisian movement - Alberto Giacometti, Serge Brignoni, Gérard Vulliamy, Kurt Seligmann, and Meret Oppenheim-or as spokesmen for the new art in Switzerland, such as Otto Abt, Max von Moos, Walter Johannes Moeschlin, Werner Schaad, Otto Tschumi, and Walter Kurt Wiemken.

It would be this connection between Swiss artists in Paris and those active in Switzerland that would foster the spread and development of Surrealist ideas on Swiss soil and the creation of progressive groups, such as Gruppe 33 or Allianz. Vereinigung moderner Schweizer Künstler.

Surrealism Switzerland enjoys the collaboration of leading Swiss museums, including the Kunsthaus Zurich, Zentrum Paul Klee, Kunstmuseum Basel, Kunstmuseum Bern and many others, and the support of major private collectors at home and abroad. The curatorship is by Peter Fischer and Julia Schallberger.

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Image: Paul Klee, Marionetten (bunt auf Schwarz), (1930; oil on cardboard, 32 x 30.5 cm; Zurich, Kunsthaus, Donation Ema and Curt Burgauer) © 2019, ProLitteris, Zurich

Klee, Giacometti and many other protagonists at major Swiss Surrealism retrospective in Lugano

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