(23 Aug 2024)
SWITZERLAND SURREALISM
SOURCE: ASSOCIATED PRESS
RESTRICTION SUMMARY:
LENGTH: 5:58
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Lausanne, Switzerland – 28 June 2024
1. Various of René Magritte’s Mouvement perpétuel, 1935
2. Various of Kurt Seligmann’s The Superfluous Hand, 1938
3. Various of Yves Tanguy’s Les Derniers Jours, 1944
4. Set up of museum director Juri Steiner walking through exhibition at Musée Cantonal des Beaux-Arts (MCBA)
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Juri Steiner, Director of MCBA
“Surrealism is probably the most influential avant-garde movement of the twentieth century. It started right after World War One, influenced by the catastrophe – this initial catastrophe – of the twentieth century. And it was, in fact, political, because it was against hierarchies, it was against old rules and it was a baby of the predecessor, Dada, which was an invention of Switzerland in the Cabaret hotel in 1916 in Zurich. And as all avant-gardes after Surrealism, after World War Two, are in a way linked with Surrealism, all the other movements in a way became or are actually political.”
6. Tilt down and pan right to Steiner in the MCBA foyer
7. Various of visitor looking at Joseph Sima’s painting, Roger-Gilbert Lecomte dit Roger Gilbert-Lecomte, 1929
8. Wide pan right of exhibition space
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Juri Steiner, Director of MCBA
“(Indicating the painting next to him which is a portrait of René Daumal by Joseph Sima) This is René Daumal. René Daumal is a poet and he was actually against André Breton because when he tells the story of Surrealism, because Surrealism is not a singular, it’s a plural, it’s Surrealisms, if you accept this. And this was important because right from the beginning there was counter-movements against Surrealism because they said here, le grand jeu, youngsters from the small city of Reims, founded a group against Breton because they said you’re not radical enough, you’re salon – artists de salon. So they experimented really with poisons, they played Russian roulette. They really destroyed themselves and almost died at a very young age.”
10. Various of Salvador Dalí, Cygnes reflétant des éléphants, 1937
11. SOUNDBITE (English) Juri Steiner, Director of MCBA
“There is of course a link to Freud and his Traumdeutung (The Interpretation of Dreams) from 1900, because they were so interested in the way that Freud rediscovered antical (ancient) myths through this kind of scientific approach to work with unconsciousness.”
12. Wide of Leonora Carrington’s Acrobats, 1981
13. Wide of Gladys Hynes’ Penny for the Guy – the thought that all war is caused by the faceless money men of the City, 1940
14. Close of same
15. SOUNDBITE (English) Juri Steiner, Director of MCBA
“She was in contact with the Surrealist movement. We are here in 1940, during World War Two, and A Penny for the Guy has a double meaning because it’s a history of Guy Fawkes and his plot against the British Parliament in the early seventeenth century and we have here pennies for the guy and actually still today young kids run around the streets on this particular day to ask for pennies for the guy.”
16. Detail of Rachel Baes’ "Le Jardin de Rubens", 1947
17. SOUNDBITE (English) Juri Steiner, Director of MCBA
“René Magritte is a very good example to play with this kind of humour because you don’t really recognise whether it is a serious secret that you can decipher here on this painting, or if it is just a joke.”
18. Wide of two visitors watching a film exhibit
19. Set up of Olivier Müller, Communications Director MCBA
20. SOUNDBITE: (English) Olivier Müller, Communications Director MCBA
Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork
Twitter: https://twitter.com/AP_Archive
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/APArchives
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/APNews/
You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/youtube/2743b54b0de94472b569c2c32c88c3a3
Author: AP Archive
Go to Source
News post in August 28, 2024, 12:04 pm.
Visit Our Sponsor’s:
News Post In – News
