The story of the Surrealist motion and its impression on the world is ready to be displayed later this 12 months in an “eye-opening” exhibition at London’s well-known Design Museum.
The exhibition titled Objects Of Desire: Surrealism And Design 1924 – Today will run from Oct 14 till Feb 19 and can discover how the Surrealist motion revolutionised artwork and design.
Nearly 350 objects will go on show, together with work from Salvador Dali, Marcel Duchamp, Leonora Carrington and Man Ray alongside items by Dior, Bjork, Tim Walker and Sarah Lucas.
It is the primary time world-renowned museum has explored the connection between advantageous artwork and design in a significant exhibition. The Design Museum is positioned in London’s upscale space of Kensington, additionally dwelling to main vacationer attracts such because the Natural History Museum and the Science Museum.
The museum’s exhibition will cowl nearly 100 years and shall be break up into 4 sections specializing in Surrealism’s affect on on a regular basis objects, inside design, style and the physique and thoughts.
Dali’s Lobster Telephone and Ray’s The Gift will show how on a regular basis objects had been embraced by the motion, whereas Lucas’s Cigarette T**s pinpoints how the physique can be utilized to reveal stereotypes of feminine sexuality.
The exhibition may even spotlight Surrealism’s affect on style as many Surrealist artists labored as photographers, together with Dali who created cowl artwork for style journal Vogue.
Vintage magazines shall be exhibited alongside Surrealist-inspired images for modern-day magazines, reminiscent of Walker’s 2013 photoshoot with actress Tilda Swinton for W journal.
Tim Marlow, the Design Museum’s director, mentioned: “From its very beginnings, Surrealism seemed to design and on a regular basis objects for inspiration, however few are conscious of the motion’s decisive impression on design.
“This eye-opening exhibition will take guests on an interesting journey by way of 100 years of this radical relationship, and it’ll carry the story proper as much as the current day for the very first time.
“The exhibition is each a landmark in the historical past of Surrealism and design and half of a wealthy and ongoing story of London’s engagement with one of the nice cultural actions of the final century.”
Curator Kathryn Johnson mentioned: “If you suppose Surrealism fizzled out in the Nineteen Sixties, suppose once more. This exhibition will show that it’s nonetheless alive and nicely and that it by no means actually went away.
“The early Surrealists had been survivors of the First World War and the 1918 influenza pandemic, and their artwork was in half a response to these horrors.
“Today, in the context of dizzying technological change, warfare and one other world pandemic, Surrealism’s spirit feels extra alive than ever in modern design.” – dpa
