Surrealist before Surrealism is the result of almost three years of cooperation between the Fundación Juan March and the Germanisches Nationalmuseum of Núrember, which has provided a large amount of works, besides the works which the own Fundation have contributed with, as well as other public and private collections, from several points of Europe.
The exhibition shows, through more than 200 drawings, engraved and photographs, the period of time between the last Middle Ages and the Surrealism. With works of, among others, Martin Schongauer, Alberto Durero, Erhard Schön, Matthias Zündt, Wenzel Jamnitzer, Hendrick Goltzius, Jaques Callot, Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Francisco de Goya, Max Klinger, Alfred Kubin, Paul Klee, Hannah Höch, Pablo Picasso, Joan Miró, Salvador Dalí, Herbert Bayer, Hans Bellmer, André Masson, Brassaï and Maurice Tabard.
The show follows the path set out by the legendary exhibition Fantastic Art, Dada, Surrealism, organized 75 years ago by the Museum of Modern Art's founding Director Alfred H. Barr, in which Barr provided a genealogy of Surrealism by juxtaposing, for the first time, the work of contemporary artists with that of Hieronymus Bosch, Giuseppe Arcimboldo, Giovanni Battista Piranesi, William Hogarth, Francisco de Goya and Grandville among others. Undoubtedly, the artistic sensibility of the Surrealist artists, as well as their preferred working methods, led them to fix their collective gaze upon the long tradition of the art of subjectivity, from the late medieval era, to the Mannerist and Baroque periods, through to modernity.
Text.- Fundación Juan March.
Besides the exhibition, the Fundación Juan March presents us the catalogue which will be published in Spanish, English and German. With that catalogue they expect to help us to know a vision about the Surrealism during the 20th century. It is divided in several parts and contains texts from Yasmin Doorsy, curator of the exhibition, Juan José Lahuerta, Rainer Schoch, Christiane Lauterbach and Christine Kupper.
Venue.- Fundación Juan March. C/ Castelló, 77. Madrid, Spain.
Dates.- 4th of October, 2013 - 14th of January, 2014.
Concerts series: illusion music.
Accompaning the exhibition Surrealists before Surrealism, the Fundación Juan March bring us a concerts serie for approaching us, through the music, to imaginary and irreal worlds. It consists in four groups of differents musics and instruments.
4th of October.- El mundo del subconsciente: Antonio Arias, flauta, y Nuria Llopia, arpa, with works of G. Fauré, C. Debussy, E. Satie y R. Shankar.
9th of October.- Sueños de pesadillas: Nelson Benedict, barítono, y Roger Vignoles, piano, with works of C. Loewe, F. Mendelssohn, A. von Zemlinsky, C. Schumann, F. Schubert, H. Wolf, B. Britten, H. Duparc, F. Poulenc, A. Schönberg, J. Brahms y E. Grieg.
16th of October.- La noche: Luis Fernando Pérez, piano, with works of C. Debussy, F. Chopin y M. de Falla.
23th of October.- Fantasías: Sofya Melikyan, piano, with works of C. P. E. Bach, R. Schumann, L. van Beethoven, J. Corigliano y F. Liszt.
Conferences series: Surrealisms...
This serie analyzes the main principles of Surrealism, which appears the firsts thirty years of 20th century, through the dreams, the ghosts, devils..
8th of October.- Juan José Lahuerta. Arte del pasado, surrealismo y arte fantástico.
10th of October.- Luis d'Ors. El surrealismo en escena: teatro y surrealismo.
15th of October.- Román Gubern. El surrealismo y la imagen en movimiento: surrealismo y cine.
17th of October.- María Tausiet. Inventario del surrealismo: sueños, visiones, fantasmas, monstruos, demonios y otras criaturas imaginarias.
