The talk of Art Basel Paris’s third edition has no doubt been the Grand Palais, the architectural gem custom-built 124 years ago for the Universal Exposition of 1900. After a three-year renovation ahead of the 2024 Summer Olympics, the venue has never looked better. Its iconic mint paint gleamed in the sunlight, especially during Wednesday’s unseasonably warm VIP Day.
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One of France’s most important home-grown art movements, Surrealism, is celebrating its centenary this year, with exhibitions around the world marking the occasion, including at the Centre Pompidou. The massive modern and contemporary museum is currently showing “Surrealism,” a show comprised of nearly 600 works, on view until January. That exhibition was initiated to celebrate the 100 years since the publication of French writer Andre Breton’s Surrealist Manifesto and started out as a traveling loan of 30 artworks from the Pompidou’s permanent collection that journeyed around the world. It then returned to the French capital, bigger and better.
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New York’s Di Donna Galleries’ presentation, titled “Hallowed Ground,” focuses on the work of four Surrealist artists who all worked in Paris between the 1920s and ’50s: Yves Tanguy, Wifredo Lam, Agustin Cardenas, and Alicia Penalba. The former three are all relatively well-known within France for their artistic contributions, while Penalba, who is well-known in her home country of Argentina, is lesser known here.
“We wanted to show four different artists from four different backgrounds,” gallery founder Emmanuel Di Donna told ARTnews.