NARRATIVE – A hundred years ago, André Breton published the first Manifesto of SurrealismThe Centre Pompidou exhibits many emblematic works of an artistic movement irrigated by a form of spirituality ultimately not very compatible with the 20th century.e materialistic century.
What was surrealism? Among the many definitions he gave of himself, one of them is worth a look. It is provided to us by André Breton in issue 12 of the magazine The Surrealist Revolution, published in December 1929: “The simplest surrealist act consists, revolvers in hand, in going down into the street and shooting at random, as much as one can, into the crowd. Whoever has not, at least once, wanted to put an end to the little system of debasement and cretinization in force, has his place clearly marked in this crowd, belly at gun level. The legitimacy of such an act is, in my opinion, in no way incompatible with the belief in this glimmer that surrealism seeks to detect deep within us.”.
Hyperbole? Poetic intoxication? Metaphorical verbiage? In any case, this definition is radical. It made surrealism, at its core, a total fight against an order (social, cultural, moral, mental…
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