Retroviseur — Autoportraits Surréalistes

OPENING : April 30 6pm

On the 100th anniversary of the publication of Breton’s Surrealist Manifesto, Olivier Varenne Art Moderne & Contemporain will explore what happened when Surrealists turned their eye on themselves. Self-portraits by Guillaume Apollinaire, Hans Bellmer, Salvador Dali, Marcel Duchamp, Max Ernst, Leonor Fini, Florence Henri, René Magritte, André Masson, Pierre Molinier, Francis Picabia, Man Ray will reveal how they chose unconventional means for image-making during an era of awakening self-analysis, exploration of alternative realities and the free creativity of the unconscious mind.

The gallery will also show in its adjacent space self-portraits by contemporary artists, including Johathan Delachaux and Cindy Sherman, for whom central to their practice is the transformation of their image.

TALK: TUESDAY 30 APRIL, 5 - 6 PM (Jean-Hubert Martin, curator, former director Centre Pompidou Paris and Marc-Olivier Wahler, Director Musée d'Art et d'Histoire Geneva, in conversation)