Surréalisme. Le Grand Jeu

2024 marks the centenary of the publication of André Breton’s Surrealist Manifesto, and thus the birth of the Surrealist movement. This French language book, whose title derives from the literary magazine Le Grand Jeu, which was published between 1928 and 1930 by a young group of French artists who diverged from the movement, celebrates 100 years of Surrealism through historical retrospection, interpretation, and a contemporary perspective. Themes such as identity, metamorphoses, esotericism, Kabbalah and magic are dealt with, as well as speculation, abstraction and automatism.

With essays by Paolo Baggi, art historian and curator, Pierre-Henri Foulon, curator of contemporary art at the MCBA in Lausanne, Susan Laxton, photo historian and professor at the University of California in Riverside, and Juri Steiner, director of the MCBA in Lausanne, alongside contributions by the poet Gorge Bataille and the author and curator Boris Bergmann.