Fantastic Women addresses the gap in representation of female surrealists (via Dazed)
,” says Kirsten Degel, curator at Louisiana Museum of Modern Art. A major new exhibition at the Copenhagen museum which brings together over 260 works by 34 international female surrealists, from Europe, the US, and Mexico.
Emerging in the lascivious and liberated atmosphere of Paris in the 1920s, surrealism was born in the wake of the devastation wrought by World War I; from the active search to find new ways to live and new modes of spirituality. Freud’s revelatory concepts of the unconscious mind and the dreamscape inspired practices of self-exploration and artistic experimentation, and his notion of the uncanny permeated the work of this new school of otherworldly art.
This major survey of female surrealists – the first overall presentation of its kind – celebrates the women at the forefront of this avant-garde movement. Including Meret Oppenheim,
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