Dorothea Tanning
in ‘Surréalisme. Le Grand Jeu’, Musée Cantonal des Beaux-Arts Lausanne (MCBA)
12 April – 28 August 2024
‘Surréalisme. Le Grand Jeu’, 2024, exhibition view, Musée Cantonal des Beaux-Arts Lausanne (MCBA). Photo: Etienne Malapert, MCBA.
This transhistorical show, the first thematic exhibition devoted to Surrealism at MCBA since 1987, examines the unprecedented relevance of this major movement in the history of art today. Bringing together over sixty historical and contemporary artists, the celebrates the centennial of the first Surrealist manifesto by exploring the passions, frictions and friendships of the movement.
The first floor features a historical section of the exhibition, and looks at multiple aspects of play, both recreational and subversive. It shows the extent to which play formed a way of being in the world and a means of negotiating between reality and imagination, the communicable and incommunicable. The second floor showcases a series of invitations to artists of our day to carry on the burst of creative energies that characterised the Surrealists’ anarchic spirit.