Surrealism has been topical again, and not just since last year's Venice Biennale. The masterpieces of this famous art movement have been inspiring a new generation of artists for some time. The ARoS art museum in the Danish city of Aarhus has now gathered together numerous famous works. They are juxtaposed with Danish Surrealists who are rather unknown abroad and who developed their own approach to their paintings. Among them are Sonja Ferlov Mancoba, Rita Kernn-Larsen, Wilhelm Freddie and Vilhelm Bjerke Pedersen. A Surreal Shock − Masterpieces from Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen will be open from October 7, 2023 to January 21, 2024 and was created in close collaboration with Museum Boijamns Van Beuningen in Rotterdam, home to one of the most important collections of Surrealism.
High-caliber loans that are rarely seen in Denmark come, for example, from Eileen Agar, Leonora Carrington, Salvador Dalí, Max Ernst, René Magritte, Joan Miró and Man Ray, listed in alphabetical order. A total of more than 200 exhibits, 180 of which are on loan from Rotterdam, promise interesting insights and findings into a chapter of art history that has already been extensively researched but is still fraught with many question marks, both for connoisseurs of the subject and for newcomers.
