Surrealism: The Poetry of Dreams

Overview

Paris, oh Paris. What with your cobblestone streets, your heavenly, heavenly bakeries, your old men playing the accordion on the street, your ridiculously difficult but seductive language… you’re pretty good at, well, everything I guess. You’re not very good at sharing the wealth though. Until now.

Paris, the center of the Surrealist art movement, has an extensive collection of  surrealist art works at one of the world’s best museums of modern and contemporary art – the Musée national d’art moderne, in Paris’ iconic Centre Pompidou. They’re bringing 180 surrealist works by 56 artists over to the GoMA for ‘Surrealism: The Poetry of Dreams’, which will be on show from June through to October.

There’ll be paintings, sculptures, ‘surrealist objects’, films, photographs, drawings and collages, displaying a historical overview of the Surrealist movement since its discovery in the early 20s. The Gallery of Modern Art is the exclusive Australian venue for the exhibition – thanks Paris! Brisbane owes ya one - the Four and Twenty meat pies are in the post.