To celebrate the centenary of Surrealism, under the aegis of the Centre Georges Pompidou, the Galerie Berthet-Aittouarès is offering an immersion in the collection of Georges Goldfayn (1933- 2019), assistant and friend of André Breton.
For Photo Saint-Germain, a section devoted to surrealist photography will open at 29 rue de Seine from October, 30th to November, 23rd.
The exhibition is structured around two major artworks by the poet and photographer Jindrich Heisler (1938-1953), belonging Georges Goldfayn’s collection and shown in the most important exhibitions on Surrealism.
Saved from the Gestapo by Toyen and Jindrich Styrsky, key figures of the Czech Surrealism movement, Heisler fled Prague and took refuge with Toyen in Paris, where he died in 1953.
His artworks were revealed to the public thanks to the retrospective organised by the Art Institute of Chicago in 2012.
In this collection, the Czech school plays an important role, with collages by Jindrich Styrsky (1899- 1942), Toyen (1902-1980) and Jan Svankmajer (born in 1934).
Georges Goldfayn's friend Rajak Ohanian, who died in 2023, will be presented with his work on the metamorphosis of the tree. This photographer has exhibited at the Niepce Museum and the Montreal contemporary art Biennial.
In a different vein, Elisa Breton’s vintage photographs bring back memories of Surrealist meetings at André Breton's home in Saint-Cirq-Lapopie.
In addition, we'll be noting an erotic photo-montage by Pierre Molinier, a vintage ‘graffiti’ print by Brassai and others to be discovered...
Galerie Berthet-Aittouarès
Since the opening of the gallery in 1986, Michèle Aittouarès and Odile Aittouarès-Inzerillo have made the same choices as they would for their personal collections and confront paintings, drawings, sculptures, photographs or videos.