Hymn to audacious aesthetics, ferocious and free, surrealism established beauty as rapture of the eyes and the body surprising, untimely and always unexpected. For, taking up the celebrated verse of Lautreamont, he assured us that ecstasy would arise from the chance encounter on a dissecting table of a sewing machine and an umbrella. From the association of two foreign bodies would spark the spark of beauty. First Arts, stuffed animals, travel memorabilia and other foreign bodies, Picabia, Desnos, Aragon and others have brought together and interacted in their works worlds of different sorts from distant eras, always in disregard of the aesthetic conventions of the time. From this "objective chance" comes a new beauty, always elusive, each time redefined. Convulsive. To Paul Bert Serpette, where borders are porous and ages without limits, there is no doubt that the surrealists would have found something to make the wall of Beauty. Click here to add your own text
In the Imaginary Apartment of the Surrealists - Weekend Selection
