Fundación Mapfre Madrid - Sala Recoletos

1924. Other Surrealisms

On October 15, 1924, André Breton published the “First Manifesto of Surrealism”. One hundred years later, 1924. Other Surrealisms analyses the reception and influence in Spain of that text and of the surrealist movement as a whole. The exhibition highlights that, despite its peripheral position with respect to the centres of the European artistic avant-garde, Spain not only contributed to the movement with some of its most representative protagonists (Dalí, Buñuel, Domínguez...), but also with other relevant but much less well-known figures. The exhibition also addresses how surrealism was reinterpreted in some Latin American countries, as well as the contribution of women to the movement.

Sakiko Nomura. Tender is the Night

Best known for her photographs of male nudes, which have represented a defiant break with some traditional taboos and stereotypes of Japanese culture, Sakiko Nomura (1967) is one of the most outstanding photographers of her generation. In this, his first major retrospective, nudes, in which erotic tension is enveloped in an atmosphere of tenderness and a certain mystery, coexist with many other images (animals, natural landscapes, empty streets and roads, forests, plants and flowers, fireworks, etc.) to end up forming a series of interrupted narratives that evoke cinematic fictions.