The major exhibition this fall at the Centre Pompidou celebrates the centenary of the birth of the Surrealist movement in Paris with the publication of André Breton’s celebrated “Manifesto of Surrealism” in October 1924.

Designed as a “Surrealist maze” this vast exhibition combines paintings, drawings, films, photographs and literary documents and presents works by the movement’s iconic artists (Salvador Dalí, René Magritte, Giorgio de Chirico, Max Ernst, Joan Miró), as well as those by the female Surrealists (including Leonora Carrington, Leonor Fini, Kay Sage).

Part One of our presentation will focus on the biography and personality of Breton and the work of the first generation of Surrealist painters in the 1920s and early 1930s.

In Part Two (Mo. 4 November) Sylvie Koneski will concentrate on the work and fate of the Surrealist women artists and companions, many largely neglected by mainstream art history until very recently .