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| Written by Julie Carroll | |
| Wednesday, 28 May 2008 | |
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The artrepublic.com exhibition review team brings you Surreal Things , currently showing at the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, showing until September 7, 2008. If you’re going to Europe this summer then it’s a must-see. One of the most significant museums in Europe, designed by Frank Gehry, it is currently playing host to a display of more than 200 extraordinary objects from one of the most influential 20th century art movements . Inspired by the Surrealists’ own stunningly exciting mise-en-scènes, the entire third floor of Frank Gehry’s building has been totally transformed. Against this spectacular backdrop, visitors will be able to see how the movement actually developed from its beginnings in the political ideology of Karl Marx and the psychoanalysis of Sigmund Freud to the world of art from artists such as Salvador Dali, Rene Magritte and Joan Miro. Surreal Things explores the impact of the avant-garde movement through architecture, design and the decorative arts in a unique theme-based setting especially designed for the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao by London-based architects Metaphor. Surreal Things highlights the evolution of Surrealism from its beginnings as a politically radical avant-garde art movement to its transformation into a worldwide cultural phenomenon which, in just a single decade, revolutionised the world of art, design, fashion, advertising, jewellery, photography, the movies, and the decorative arts and which, even today, continues to exert a good deal of influence on many fields of artistic and cultural endeavour.Alongside objects designed by Elsa Schiaparelli are works by Meret Oppenheim, de Chirico’s costumes and set designs for Diaghilev’s Le Bal. Ceramics and paintings of Joan Miró and Jean Arp, Alberto Giacometti’s sculptures and jewels produced by Alexander Calder. Furniture by Carlo Mollino’s is mounted in a unique theme-based setting designed especially for the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao. The highly unusual, and often very familiar objects on display are by some of the movement’s leading figures, including Salvador Dalí, René Magritte, Jean Arp, Joan Miró, Giorgio de Chirico, Isamu Noguchi, Eileen Agar, Jean Michel Frank, Frederick Kiesler, and Max Ernst. Divided into five theme-based sections, called “The Ballet”, “Surrealism and the Object”, “Nature made Strange”, “Displaying the Body” and “The Illusory Interior”, Salvador Dalí, one of the movement’s most controversial artists, generated tension with the original Surrealist group through his commitment to the world of objects and commerce. Dalí summed up his desire to create objects thus: “I try to create fantastic things, magical things, things like in a dream. The world needs more fantasy. Our civilization is too mechanical. We can make the fantastic real, transforming it into something more real than what really exists.” But Dalí was not the only artist criticized by others in the movement for his relation with the world of commerce. When Joan Miró and Max Ernst created a series of stage settings and costume designs for the Russian Ballet, André Breton, the movement’s founder, and one of the most intransigent defenders of the original Surrealist spirit as an aesthetic movement using automatic techniques to reflect the dream world, launched a ferocious attack. OPENING HOURS: Tue -Sun: 10.00 - 20.00 Buy surrealist works from Salvador Dali, Rene Magritte, Maurits Etser, Joan Miró and Man Ray at http://www.artrepublic.com Notes to Editors artrepublic established its first gallery in 1992 in the heart of Brighton’s North Laine. Its second gallery ‘artrepublic at tomtom’ is in the heart of London’s Soho. artrepublic features rare, collectable, cutting-edge art prints, limited editions, silkscreens and giclees from contemporary artists such as Banksy, Jamie Reid, James Cauty , Sir Peter Blake and Jamie Hewlett alongside popular artists such as Warhol and Lichtenstein. www.artrepublic.com has an extensive choice of art prints all available with free delivery worldwide . The gallery also offers a bespoke framing service with a huge choice of mouldings and expert advice on hand and the website offers a large selection of quality frames delivered free throughout the UK. For more information about this press release please call Julie Carroll on 07971 955140/Andrew Milledge Marketing Director of artrepublic on 01273 664366. 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