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To celebrate 100 years of Surrealism, Brumes Blondes is presenting a group exhibition comprised of surrealist artists from the Netherlands, opening May 11 in Amsterdam.
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Infosurr's 165th issue is now available:
Issue 165 will pay homage to Gérard Durozoi who brought surrealism to several generations. "What Durozoi wrote was flying high but he so elegantly made everything comprehensible". His portrait will feature on page 1. Light will be thrown on the astonishing personality of Arturo Schwarz, the encyclopaedic compiler of surrealism and the avant-gardes, but with other 'identity cards" to be discovered...One page will be devoted to the "poetic surreality" of Will Alexander, the perfect successor of Ted Joans and another one to Claude Gauvreau's "dramatic objects" and his Vampire and the Nymphomaniac, Gauvreau's little-known opera, which is probably the most vibrant example of the scion of surrealism in Quebec - the automatist movement.
We will also deal with an exhibition in Germany of Jan Svankmajer's itinerary as a filmmaker, a creator of objects and a surrealist activist. "Never put your work at the service of anything else but freedom". We will return to Pol Bury's exhibition, his graphic work next to his "animated reliefs", and to the Gardens of Dreams by Alberto Giacometti and Salvador Dali....another very rich issue !
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De sable et de gueules (Sable and Gules), an exposition of the Surrealist Group of Paris, is opening 24 April at Espace Louis Michel.
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This March 100/cabeças published patíbulo com para-raios, a Portuguese translation of Georges Sebbag's essential work on Surrealism and philosophy, Potence avec Paratonnere. English readers, though, will still have to wait.
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Out now: Here, There, and Nowhere, by Valery Oisteanu with collages by Ruth Oisteanu.
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Surrealist Women: Online Panel maoderated by Dawn Ades, with Penelope Rosemont, Penny Slinger, Mohsen Elbelasy, Ghadah Kamal, Gloria Orenstein, Brigitte Nicole Grice, and Kathy Lou Schultz.
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International Women's Day Statement
Today, on International Women’s Day, we, the Surrealist Middle East and North Africa womens , stand before you not merely as artists, but as a surrealist seers, as architects of a revolution of the minds . The canvas of our rebellion is the body, the mind,, the subconscious power, the very fabric of a reality that seeks to chain the feminine to the mundane.
We have seen the desires of women – desires born of fire and starlight – caged like exotic birds. Their imaginations, vast and shimmering tapestries of the possible, have been stifled and dimmed. The very contours of their bodies policed, mapped like territories ripe for conquest. Let it be known that this ends here.
We channel the spirit of our surrealist ancestors – the defiant eyes of Joyce Mansour and Leonora Carrington, and Leonor Fini, the cosmic fury of Unica Zürn. We weave their audacity into our own, amplifying it with the pulse of this land – a land where the dreams whispers ancient secrets and the echoes of women’s voices reverberate across millennia of oppression.
To those who brandish tradition as a weapon: we spit on your archaic laws. To those who seek dominion over our bodies: we offer not docile flesh, but flesh transformed. Woman as phoenix, woman as tempest, woman as the boundless expanse of the subconscious.
We are the harbingers of dreams that refuse to bow. Our bodies are maps to unexplored realms, our desires manifestos written in the language of the strange and sublime. Let the oppressors cower, for theirs is a world built on sand, soon to be devoured by a rising tide of female liberation.
We have unearthed the key to the cage, and it is forged in the fires of our collective imagination. Today, we shatter the bars. Today, we rise, sisters of the brush, the pen, the sculpted dream.
From downtown Cairo to the bustling hearts of all the surrealist cities, a femmene surrealist rebellion is born.
The gods sold to us by Oppressive societies have grown fat on our silence. Their hollow scriptures chain our wrists, brand the scarlet letter of submission onto our skin. They mold our bodies into grotesque parodies of virtue, cloaking vibrant flesh in the shroud of shame. Their whispered edicts invade the chambers of our minds, poisoning the wellspring of thought.
We, the daughters of hallucination, disciples of the illogical, reject this tyranny of the ordinary! The spirit of rebellion courses through our veins like wildfire. We will paint our defiance across the cracked walls of patriarchal decree. Our dreams, once caged, will become dreams Molotov shattering the temples of oppression.
. We reclaim this legacy of the surrealist women – a legacy bound not by the shackles of tradition but by the boundless canvas of imagination. We shall conjure storms from our tears, birth revolutions from our wombs.
We demand laws forged not in the fires of religious zealotry, but in the unyielding anvil of justice. Laws that are shields against the blows of social terrorism, that cast light into the darkest corners where women weep in forced solitude.
Let this not be mistaken for a plea uttered in a meek voice. This is a battle cry echoing from the painted lips of the unyielding, a surrealist manifesto inked in the blood of defiance.
They may try to bury us, to erase our vibrant hues from this stark landscape. But know this: from every grain of sand we will rise, a kaleidoscope of resistance unfurling across the horizon. For we are the women of the surrealist – untamed, unbound, and unafraid!, carry our words. Let the world tremble.
Ghadah Kamal Ahmed
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Equality and Solidarity with our Sisters, by Ody Saban
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Surrealist Women: Thoughts for 2024, by Penelope Rosement
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A new edition of Gerard de Nerval's correspondence is out now including the first drafts of pieces that later featured in Les Chimères and other works.
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A new catalogue of Charles Duits' library along with his correspondence with Henri Michaux on psychotropic drugs is available for download from Editions du Sandre.
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Analogon is now on its 101st issue, including texts by Vratislav Effenberger, Georges Bataille, Walter Benjamin, Slavoj Zizek, Zuzana Marie Kostićová, Bertrand Schmitt, and many others. View a sample here.
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The first issue of El cerebro del niño is out now, a tribute to surrealist women with an anthology of almost twenty authors. Edited by Benjamín Rivera Meza, the new journal is currently available only in Chile.
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Tomorrow sees the launch of Sex Magic: Ithell Colquhoun's Diagrams of Love, by Amy Hale from Tate Publishing.
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For more than a decade Bruno Jacobs has presented street art collaborations on the byways of Cadiz, now documented in a PDF available from the Surrealismo Internacional site.
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Dreamdew is on its 35th issue with an excellent piece by Dolfi Trost and dream accounts from Meret Oppenheim.
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Originally published clandestinely in Nazi-occupied Prague and long unavailable, On the Needles of These Days, with photographs by Jindrich Styrsky and text by Jindrich Heisler translated into English by Jed Slast can now be ordered from Twisted Spoon Press.
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