Madrid, Spain - 9 April 2018
1. Wide of "Magritte, Duchamp, Dali: 20th century art revolutionaries" exhibition directors, curators and fitters in front of exhibition's banner
2. Tilt down from close of "self-portrait Mona Lisa" by Salvador Dali (1973) used for exhibition's banner to the title that reads in Spanish "20th Century art revolutionaries. Masterpieces of the Israel museum, Jerusalem"
3. "Observatory time - The Lovers" by Man Ray (Emmanuel Radnitzky) (1932-1934)
4. Various of installation that reproduces images of Salvador Dali and Luis Buñuel "An Andalusian dog" film
5. "Surrealist essay" by Salvador Dali (1934)
6. Wide of visitors walking around the exhibition. "Woman and birds" by Joan Miró (1970) is in forefront.
7. Pull focus on "Bird" by Joan Miró (1960)
8. Mobile "Untitled" by Alexander Calder
9. Tilt down of 1963 limited edition replica of "Bicycle wheel" by Marcel Duchamp (1913)
10. SOUNDBITE (English) Adina Kamien-Kazhdan, curator:
"Dada was one of the first, or the first you could say, multimedia movements because it begins with performances, films, photography, collage, montage, the ready-made. Not only painting, and sculpture and drawing which were also their tools. But they bring together all the tools that are offered to them as artists of the beginning of the 20th Century to create a revolution of the spirit."
11. Close-up of ready-made "Waistcoat for Benjamin Péret" by Marcel Duchamp (1958)
12. Wide of curator Adina Kamien-Kazhdan explaining art works
13. Medium of "Chateau Mille-secousses " (1962) and "Monument to the unknown painter" (1955) by Man Ray (Emmanuel Radnitzky) and "Box alert" by Mimi Parent (1959)
14. 1971 limited edition replica of "Pallettablle" by Man Ray (Emmanuel Radnitzky) (1940)
15. SOUNDBITE (English) Adina Kamien-Kazhdan, curator:
"I would say art used to be on more of a pedestal and by using train tickets, wrappers of candies, pieces of newspaper and bringing it and creating an artwork out of this rubbish, things that you would have through in the garbage, that bridges the boundaries between art and life. Creating a sculpture, which is no longer called the sculpture but a ready-made, out of a kitchen stool and a bicycle wheel is redefining what art was and bridging the boundaries between art and life."
16. Zoom out of "The handsome brooder" by René Magritte (1950)
17. Wide of curator Adina Kamien-Kazhdan explaining "The Castle of the Pyrenees" by René Magritte (1959)
18. Tilt up of "The Castle of the Pyrenees" by René Magritte (1959)
19. SOUNDBITE (English) Ido Bruno, Israel Museum director:
"There are a lot of more deep meanings between the works themselves that you can see in the exhibition and the different spaces. Some of them interact with the space, some of them interact with the meaning. You know in the sacristy of the Palacio we actually have the section of the exhibition that deals with desire and it's painted pink."
20. Tilt down from Gaviria's palace sacristy dome to "Desire" room painted in pink
21. "Marcel Duchamp as Belle Haleine" by Man Ray and Marcel Duchamp (1921)
22. "Untitled nude" by Man Ray (Emmanuel Radnitzky) (1949)
23. "Woman in front of the sea" by Pablo Picasso (1939)
24. Various of the "Specter of the Gardenia" by Marcel Jean (1936/1968)
25. A woman watching through a hole in Oscar Tusquets reconstruction of the famous Mae West living room
26. Various of women taking pictures in Mae West living room
27. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Oscar Tusquets, architect and exhibition fitter:
"This was a work that was done with Salvador Dalí in 1975. It is the fruit of my collaboration with Salvador Dalí, who was a great friend of mine. The idea was to create a space used as a living room that reproduced the painting "Mae West's face". I proposed to Salvador Dali why don't we make a room that reproduced that painting. At that time I was very conceptual (he laughs). And Salvador Dali was delighted (by the idea)."
28. Zoom out of "Waiting for the liberation (skeletons in an office)" by Paul Delvaux (1944)
29. Various of reproduction of "Installation with coal sacks" by Marcel Duchamp (1938)
The creative team behind the exhibition "Magritte, Duchamp, Dali: 20th century art revolutionaries".
The collection on display at Madrid's Gaviria Palace features 180 works by well-known Dada and Surrealism artists, including Rene Magritte, Marcel Duchamp, and Salvador Dali.
Both Dada and Surrealism were major movements of the 20th Century that revolutionised the language of art, aiming to free the spirit and celebrate the human imagination.
Dada is an art movement that began in 1916 in Zurich and was a reaction to the horror of the First World War.
This movement spread to Hannover, Cologne, Berlin, New York and Paris. In France, during the early 1920s, it developed into the Surrealism movement who's leader was André Breton. The Surrealism manifesto was written in 1924.
Those were multimedia movements. They are characterised by the used of new technologies brought by the 20th Century: photography, film, radio, etc.
"Dada was one of the first, or the first you could say, multimedia movements because it begins with performances, films, photography, collage, montage, the ready-made. Not only painting, and sculpture and drawing which were also their tools. But they bring together all the tools that are offered to them as artists of the beginning of the 20th Century to create a revolution of the spirit," says curator Adina Kamien-Kazhdan.
Visitors are able to see the different stages of the art revolution where the works blur the borders between art and life, highlighted by pieces from Marcel Duchamp and collage and photomontage by Ernst and Höch in the section titled "Juxtapositions".
"I would say art used to be on more of a pedestal and by using train tickets, wrappers of candies, pieces of newspaper and bringing it and creating an artwork out of this rubbish, things that you would have through in the garbage, that bridges the boundaries between art and life. Creating a sculpture, which is no longer called the sculpture but a ready-made, out of a kitchen stool and a bicycle wheel is redefining what art was and bridging the boundaries between art and life," explains Kamien-Kazhdan.
All the artwork shown is on loan from Israel Museum and it has been grouped into different themes.
Israel Museum director Ido Bruno says there are a lot of deep meanings between the works themselves and the exhibition space.
"Some of them interact with the space, some of them interact with the meaning. You know in the sacristy of the Palacio we actually have the section of the exhibition that deals with desire and it's painted pink," he says.
The "Desire: muse and abuse" section is focused in the image of women.
In fact, architect Oscar Tusquets has reconstructed the famous Mae West living room which stands in Salvador Dali's house in Figueres.
"This was a work that was done with Salvador Dalí in 1975. It is the fruit of my collaboration with Salvador Dalí, who was a great friend of mine. The idea was to create a space used as a living room that reproduced the painting "Mae West's face". I proposed to Salvador Dali why don't we make a room that reproduced that painting. At that time I was very conceptual (he laughs). And Salvador Dali was delighted (by the idea)," says Tusquets.
As the exhibition fitter, Tusquets has also rebuilt the installation of 1200 sacks of coal designed by Duchamp for the Exposition Internationale du Surréalisme in 1938.
The "Biomorphism and Illusion" section reflects the tendency to favour ambiguous and organic shapes, inspipred by nature, nudity and the stars.
Another section deals with "Automatism" - reflecting the movement's fascination with new developments in psychiatric thought in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
Here, visitors will be able to enjoy the works of Joan Miro and Marcel Duchamp.
The dream images created by Magritte, Dali and Paul Delvaux which inspired Surrealism are put together in the "Dreamscape" section.
The exhibition comes to Madrid after its premiere in Bologna, Italy. The exhibition at Madrid's Gaviria Palace runs until July 15th 2018.
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