Exposition Internationale du Surréalisme
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The Exposition Internationale du Surréalisme was an exhibition by surrealist artists that took place from January 17th to February 24th 1938 in the generously equipped Galérie Beaux-Arts, run by Georges Wildenstein, at 140, Rue du Faubourg Saint-Honoré in Paris. It was organised by the French writer André Breton, the surrealists’ brain and theorist, and Paul Éluard, the best known poet of the movement. The catalogue listed, along with the above, Marcel Duchamp as curator, Salvador Dalí and Max Ernst as technical advisers, Man Ray as head lighting technician and Wolfgang Paalen as “expert for water and foliage”.
The exhibition was staged in three sections, showing paintings and objects as well as unusually decorated rooms and mannequins which had been redesigned in various ways. With this holistic presentation of surrealist art work the movement wrote exhibition history.
Works included the decorated mannequins by André Masson and Marcel Duchamp's 1200 sacks of coal suspended from the ceiling of the gallery.
Participating artists included Hans Bellmer, Denise Bellon, Joseph Breitenbach, André & Jacqueline Breton, Leonora Carrington, Joseph Cornell, Salvador Dali, Oscar Dominguez, Marcel Duchamp, Max Ernst, Stanley William Hayter, Maurice Henry, Georges Hugnet, Marcel Jean, Humphrey Jennings, Man Ray, André Masson, Matta, E.L.T. Mesens, Meret Oppenheim, Wolfgang Paalen, Gaston Paris, Roland Penrose, Kurt Seligmann, Jindrich Styrsky, Yves Tanguy, Toyen, Raoul Ubac and Remedios Varo.
