Surrealism. The Age of the Machine

The Mateo Inurria Canal Foundation will host an exhibition in the Mateo Inurria 2 Hall from 7 February to 14 April, which brings together pieces by Duchamp, Man Ray, Picabia and Stieglitz which delve into a new age in modernity: the age of the machine.

The exhibition is made up of 125 pieces, including paintings, photographs, engravings, drawings, magazines, catalogues and books, sculptures and ready-made objects, and collection boxes showcased in four different sections: The New World and “Pure Photography”;  From the Artistic Nude to the Body as a Machine; From Abstraction to the Machine; and Eros and the Machine.  

After the First World War, the world underwent a transformation. Europe was devastated, and the avant-garde shifted focus to the “New World,” namely New York.  There, artists found new inspiration in a more modern, technical and booming society: the machine, “born without a mother,” but feminine and erotic, emerging from itself and reproduced without any model to imitate.

Image Credit:

Marcel Duchamp. Rotoreliefs, 1935/1965. © Association Marcel Duchamp / VEGAP, 2024