STRANGE! Surrealisms 1950–1990 from the Collections of the Nationalgalerie

“Surrealism emerged in the early 1920s – but when did it end? Some say that the start of the Second World War marked the end of the movement, others cite the death of its spokesman André Breton (1896–1966), and still others are convinced that Surrealism can never really come to an end! What is certain is that it spread rapidly. And whether in France, Spain, Czechoslovakia or Mexico, its proponents were quick to agree that Surrealism should not be seen as a shared artistic style, but as a mindset. The only thing that mattered was a “sur-real” attitude to all that we tend to call “reality”, a world governed by common sense, restrictive rationality and logocentrism, from which it was necessary to find escape routes into another, “sur-real” reality. …”