Salvador Dalí, Les Premiers Jours du printemps, 1929 (detalle)

Surrealism is the longest-living ism, the only avant-garde movement that has withstood the turn into the 21st century. Surrealist today are Björk’s videos (with explicit references to Man Ray), fashion (such as the collections of Rei Kawakubo, the Japanese clothing creator currently triumphing in Paris), design (impregnating even Scandinavian sobriety with eccentric items by the Swedish brand Front and its iconic life-size horse lamp), and so on and so forth. The word ‘surrealist’ is ingrained in everyday language, although its origins are falling into oblivion. This year, 2024, we celebrate the movement that André Breton made official through a manifesto written exactly a hundred years ago...[+]