Artists

Salvador Dalí, Meret Oppenheim, Francis Picabia, André Masson, André Masson, Oscar Dominguez, Victor Brauner, Sonja Ferlov Mancoba, Franciska Clausen

Press release

Fabulating collective works, imprints from a car tire, and free pencil strokes. This autumn’s major exhibition, Surreal on Paper, focuses on surrealism’s use of drawing. The Surrealist movement emerged in France in the 1920s as a reaction to the horrors of World War I. The Surrealists wanted a fresh start—to revolutionize society and liberate human instincts and dreams. Drawing became one of their most important tools for unleashing boundless imagination and accessing the subconscious. The exhibition offers insight into how the Surrealists used drawing to explore their artistic project—and to understand themselves, each other, and their time through playful experiments and collective creation processes.