The Guggenheim Museum Bilbao will show the exhibition from February 11 to May 22, 2022 ‘From Fauvism to Surrealism: masterpieces from the Musée d’Art Moderne de Paris’.
As explained from the Bilbao museum, among the authors included in the Fauvism are Derain, Robert Delaunay, Matisse, Maurice de Vlaminck and Louis Valtat. In the Cubism section you will find artists of this movement such as Braque, Albert Gleizes, Natalia Goncharova, Juan Gris, Fernand Léger, André Lhote, Jean Metzinger and Picasso. From Surrealism, you can see works by Breton, Ernst, André Masson and Matta.
The exhibition is curated by Fabrice Hergott, director of the Musée d’Art Moderne in Paris, in collaboration with Hélène Leroy, curator of the Musée d’Art Moderne in Paris, and Geaninne Gutiérrez-Guimarães, curator of the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao.
“The audacious expression of freedom shown by the Fauvist and Cubist artists at the birth of both movements in the first decade of the 20th century was a revolution in the traditional representation of portraiture, landscape and still life that was considered scandalous,” they explain from the Guggenheim.
For its part, surrealism “promotes liberation, the irrational and the revolutionary, and influenced all areas of artistic creation, originating innovative technical and artistic procedures,” they added.
The sample includes a selection of 70 works, and is organized chronologically into three sections, which cover from the beginning of the 20th century to the period following World War II.
Amedeo Modigliani “Woman with Blue Eyes” © Paris Musées / Musée d’Art Moderne de Paris
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