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.
On the occasion of 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 to the Georges Goldfayn collection and shown in the most significant exhibitions on Surrealism.
Saved from the Gestapo by Toyen and Jindrich Styrsky, key figures of the Czech Surrealism movement, Heisler fled Prague and saught refuge with Toyen in Paris, where he died in 1953.
His work was revealed to the general public thanks to the retrospective organised by the Art Institute of Chicago in 2012.

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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.

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In a different vein, exhibited vintage photographs of Elisa Breton bring back memories of Surrealist meetings at André Breton's home in Saint-Cirq-Lapopie.

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In addition, we will include an erotic photo-montage by Pierre Molinier, a vintage ‘graffiti’ print by Brassai, a video by Pascal Frament and others to be discovered...