Surrealism and Magic: last tour around Venice.
10:45 a.m.06/07/22 - If there is a word to define everything that has been happening in Venice, since this year's Biennale was inaugurated, it is MAGIC. According to Max Ernst, magic means "the approach to the unknown by other ways than science or religion". Precisely with this definition begins the exhibition that is currently taking place at the Peggy Guggenheim Collection, entitled Surrealism and Magic: La modernità incantata.
Muse
Technique: oil on canvas
Technique: oil on canvas
It is a journey inside the Surrealist Movement through the most relevant artists in the history of Art, a reunion of paintings and sculptures that defined the intention of these creators who knew how to interpret the post-war feeling of rebellion against everything rational. That is why they explored myth, magic, alchemy, the irrational and the unconscious to express their most intimate desires and fears.
La vestizione della sposa, by Max Ernst (1940)
Technique: oil on canvas
Technique: oil on canvas
And like everything that has happened in this 2022 Biennial, the credit goes to the women, exquisite exponents of this expression, with Leonora Carrington (1917-2011), Remedios Varo (1908-1963), Leonor Fini and Dorothea Tanning as the main examples, who engaged with the occult and the myths in particular.
La cucina aromatica di nonna Moorhead, by Leonora Carrington (1975)
Technique: oil on canvas
Technique: oil on wood
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