Dada, Surrealism Exhibition Shows Magritte, Duchamp, Miro Works In Budapest

Budapest, July 8 (MTI) – The two main movements of 20th-century avant-garde, Dada and Surrealism, are featured at a large-scale exhibition that opened in the Hungarian National Gallery on Wednesday.

The exhibition offers an insight into the evolvement of the movements through more than 100 works by Marcel Duchamp, Rene Magritte, Max Ernst, Man Ray, Joan Miro and Salvador Dali on loan from the Israel Museum in Jerusalem.

Dada and Surrealism radically renewed the thinking about art, Adina Kamien-Kazhdan, the exhibition’s curator, told MTI. Dada reinterpreted the ordinary object and Surrealism opened up new ways of creating art by expanding the concept of reality, she said.

Artists of these two movements developed novelties such as the photo-montage, collage, assemblage and ready-made which are extensively featured at the Budapest exhibition.

One of the notable pieces on display is a replica Duchamp made of his iconic readymade “Fountain,” the organisers said.