Surrealism - Finestre sull'Arte

From Matisse to Modigliani, in Padua here are drawings from the Musée de Grenoble

Palazzo Zabarella in Padua announces the exhibition visitable from October 5, 2024 to January 12, 2025 titled MATISSE PICASSO MODIGLIANI MIRÓ - Masterpieces of Drawing from the Musée de Grenoble, curated by Guy Tosatto and in collaborat...
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At the Magnani Rocca Foundation, an exhibition traces the links between Surrealism and Italy

One hundred years ago Surrealism was born, changing the perception of the world forever. "Imagination is nothing but the revelation of what we are, of our own substance, which is dream, purity, energy, freedom," wrote André Breton in his Manif...
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Rediscovering Bona de Mandiargues, an important surrealist whose story has never been reconstructed

When one speaks of Surrealist women, one thinks of Leonora Carrington, Meret Oppenheim, Dora Maar, Remedios Varo, but among them there is another, Bona de Mandiargues (Rome, 1926 - Paris, 2000), whose singular story has never previously been reconstr...
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Giorgio De Chirico's continuing metaphysics on display in Conegliano

Entitled Giorgio de Chirico. Metaphysics Continues the exhibition with which Palazzo Sarcinelli in Conegliano (Treviso), from Oct. 11, 2023 to Feb. 25, 2024, anticipates the centennial celebrations of Surrealism (1924-2024), a movement of which De Ch...
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Max Ernst's first Italian retrospective in Milan, Palazzo Reale

From Oct. 4, 2022 to Feb. 26, 2023, Palazzo Reale in Milan will host the first Italian retrospective dedicated to Max Ernst (Brühl, 1891 - Paris, 1976), the great Surrealist painter, sculptor and poet, art theorist, German, later naturalized Ame...
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Surrealism and Magic, Peggy Guggenheim Collection: the Public Programs for May

The Peggy Guggenheim Collection 's Public Programs scheduled from April to September have started: events and side activities proposed on the occasion of the exhibition Surrealism and Magic. Enchanted Modernity, running until September 26, 2022, whic...
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Surrealism and Magic at the Peggy Guggenheim Collection. Public Programs for all ages

As part of the exhibition Surrealism and Magic. Enchanted Modernity on view through September 26, 2022 at the Peggy Guggenheim Collection and curated by Grazina Subelyte, the Palazzo Venier dei Leoni museum venue is organizing a comprehensive program...
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Surrealism and Magic: why the occult was crucial to the Surrealists

In the Surrealist Manifesto of 1924, André Breton, the founder of Surrealism, summarized the formal practice of the movement under a chapter with a very indicative title: Secrets de l'art magique surréaliste, or "Secrets of Surrealist...
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