From March 31 to September 10, the Musée de Montmartre Jardins Renoir will present an exhibition dedicated to a movement that is both provocative and dynamic, surrealism, but this time, seen by women. About fifty of these international artists and poets who joined this movement from the 1930s to the 1970s will be represented here, from Claude Cahun to Dora Maar, via Lee Miller, Leonora Carrington or even Jane Graverol and Suzanne Van Dalmme. In all, 150 works will be shown to the public, testifying to the richness of feminine surrealism, even if museums and art markets have tended to underestimate its strength and originality. It was, however, an unparalleled means of expression, creativity and freedom for these artists. They in turn appropriated the themes used by their male counterparts, while taking them into other dimensions, more focused on pure imagination.
From letters to painting, via sculpture or cinema, they have bet on interdisciplinarity, gone beyond purely heterosexual norms and have developed their art all over the world. The exhibition will be displayed in seven different sections (Metamorphosis, Nature, Seductions and Plural Femininity, Chimeras, Architectures, Interior Nights, Abstractions), in a place that is no stranger to this movement, because many surrealist artists, men and women, surveyed the district of Montmartre, represented and fantasized regarding it. If the exhibition is called Feminine surrealism?we bet that the question mark will soon be replaced by an exclamation mark.
