Surrealism Beyond Borders | Met Exhibitions

Watch a video preview of the exhibition, “Surrealism Beyond Borders,” on view at The Met from October 11, 2021–January 30, 2022. Nearly from its inception, Surrealism has had an international scope, but knowledge of the movement has been formed primarily through a Western European focus. This exhibition reconsiders the true “movement” of Surrealism across boundaries of geography and chronology—and within networks that span Eastern Europe to the Caribbean, Asia to North Africa, and Australia to Latin America. Including almost eight decades of work produced by artists from over 45 countries, “Surrealism Beyond Borders” offers a fresh appraisal of these collective concerns and exchanges—as well as historical, national, and local distinctions—that recasts appreciation of this most revolutionary and globe-spanning movement.

The exhibition is made possible by the Barrie A. and Deedee Wigmore Foundation.

Additional support is provided by the Placido Arango Fund, the Gail and Parker Gilbert Fund, Alice Cary Brown and W.L. Lyons Brown, the John Pritzker Family Fund, and The International Council of The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

The exhibition is supported by an indemnity from the Federal Council on the Arts and the Humanities.

It is organized by The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Tate Modern.

Credits:
Managing Producer: Kate Farrell
Producer: Bryan Martin
Production Coordinator: Lela Jenkins
Editor: Stephanie Wuertz
Original Music: Austin Fisher

Artwork and Images:
René Magritte © 2021 C. Herscovici / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Photo: The Art Institute of Chicago / Art Resource, NY
Jan Švankmajer © Athanor Ltd.
Salvador Dalí © 2021 Salvador Dalí, Fundació Gala-Salvador Dalí, Artists Rights Society. Photo © Tate
“Le monde au temps des surréalistes.” In “Le surréalisme en 1929.” Variétés (Brussels), June 1929, pp. 26–27. Image © Metropolitan Museum of Art, photo by Mark Morosse
Kaveh Golestan © Kaveh Golestan Estate; Courtesy Archaeology of the Final Decade
Antonio Berni Courtesy Galería Sur Photography credit: Eduardo Baldizán
Byon Yeongwon National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea
Malangatana Ngwenya Photo © Tate
Dušan Marek © National Film and Sound Archive of Australia. © Art Gallery of New South Wales
Françoise Sullivan © 2021 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / SOCAN, Montreal
El Janabi Collection of Abdel Kader El Janabi
Hector Hyppolite Courtesy of The Museum of Everything
Wifredo Lam © 2021 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris. Photography by Erik Gould, courtesy of the Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence.
Marko Ristić Courtesy of Museum of Contemporary Art, Belgrade
André Breton © 2021 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris.
André Breton © 2021 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris. Digital Image © The Museum of Modern Art/Licensed by SCALA / Art Resource, NY
Helen Lundeberg © The Feitelson / Lundeberg Art Foundation Image credit line: © The Regents of The University of California Photography by Fredrik Nilsen
Salvador Dalí © 2021 Salvador Dalí, Fundació Gala-Salvador Dalí, Artists Rights Society. Photo: Philadelphia Museum of Art: The Louise and Walter Arensberg Collection, 1950, 1950-134-41
Leonora Carrington © 2021 Estate of Leonora Carrington / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
Enrico Baj Courtesy Fondazione Marconi, Milan - Archivio Baj, Vergiate
Dorothea Tanning © 2021 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris. Photo © Tate
Enrique Grau, Gabriel Garciá Márquez , Alvaro Cepeda Samudio, and Luis Vicens Courtesy Fundación Patrimonio Fílmico Colombiano and Tita Cepeda
Skunder (Alexander) Boghossian © 2021 Skunder Boghossian. Courtesy of the North Carolina Museum of Art
Koga Harue Photo: MOMAT/DNPartcom
Claude Cahun © Jersey Heritage
Len Lye Courtesy of the Len Lye Foundation and Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision
Joan Miró © Successió Miró / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris 2021
Marcel Jean © 2021 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris. Photo © MAD, Paris / Jean Tholance

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[mnracer]

Looks great ! Might just get me back to the Met for the first time in a year and half!

[liberecorrispondenzedarte]

Thanks to The Met ❣️ This will be a great exhibition

[susiefairfield]

“The artist's task is to save the soul of mankind; and anything less is a dithering while Rome burns. Because of the artists, who are self-selected, for being able to journey into the Other, if the artists cannot find the way, then the way cannot be found.”
"One reaches through to the continents and oceans of the imagination, worlds able to sustain anyone who will but play, and then lets the play deepen and deepen until it is a reality that few would even dare to entertain...The human imagination is the holographic organ of the human body, and we don't 'imagine' anything. We simply see things so far away that there is no possibility of validating or invalidating their existence."
~Terence McKenna

[indicobalt]

I know my invite to the Met Ball is already in my Kourt.

[harperwelch]

For those of us who don’t have access to The Met, these short teases are not very fulfilling. If you can put effort into posting what’s being exhibited, then show enough for us out-of-towers to enjoy the show. Many thanks.