Surrealism. Communicating Vessels

The Museo Nacional de Arte de México—MUNAL—presents until September 15, 2012, the exhibition entitled Surrealism. Communicating Vessels, curated by Antonieta Bautista.

The exhibition consists of close to 120 works, including paintings, sculptures, and objects created by national and international artists. Seventeen of the works exhibited are part of the Centre Georges Pompidou.

The participating artists and their respective works left a mark on their creative processes that had an impact on Mexican and international art.

The exhibition includes works by artists like: Yves Tanguy, Man Ray, Max Ernst, Victor Brauner, André Masson, René Magritte, Joan Miró, Salvador Dalí, Jean Marcel, Luis Buñuel, Gunther Gerzso, Manuel Álvarez-Bravo, Leonora Carrington, Diego Rivera, Frida Kahlo, Remedios Varo, Antonio Ruiz "El Corcito", María Izquierdo, Carlos Mérida, Juan Soriano, Dorothea Tanning, and Wifredo Lam, among others.

Surrealism. Communicating Vessels becomes a surrealist epicenter where Europe and America share the same influence—artistic movement—in which several art representatives from different backgrounds gather to expose the same artistic reality that was simultaneously promoted during the beginning of the last century, and that was conceived in 1924 under the Surrealist Manifesto created by André Breton.

The exhibition is accompanied by a catalog with writings by experts from two different fields. Both approach the subject from two perspectives—the art field and psychoanalysis—that eventually converge in Surrealism.

Under the same framework, the MUNAL also presents a series of surrealist films, complementary conferences, and a concurrent exhibition by artist Raúl Anguiano entitled Two Realities, 1934-1942. This exhibition surveys an 8 year period that captures dreams of an oneiric world that leaves aside its well-known political content.