The Surreal House, which is for exhibition, is focused on the influence of Spirit of Surrealism on Architecture. For surrealists, the individual dwelling is not just “a machine for living” (Le Corbusier), but is “a stage for living”. In this show, all exhibits express the importance of dreamland and aspiration in the subconscious world. It is different with the Modern Architecture which tends to be rational and neat house.
This exhibition combines the first-generation surrealists and their main surrealism art works (panting, photography, film, sculpture and some surreal housing examples). The artists including Salvador Dali, Marcel Duchamp, Sarah Lucas, Buster Keaton, Man Ray, John Hejduk have been active in different areas of artist.
At the start of exhibition, two pieces of Duchamp’s artworks were showing. PRIERE DE TOUCH was used as a surrealism book cover, but here, it symbolizes door and window to the Surreal House. After entering the house, visitors will pass through a series of rooms which display different subjects and functions, such as the home of Freud, Femme Maison (female house) which is the masterpiece of Louise Bourgeois. These rooms are connected by corridors, some rooms bright while others dark. Some space is compressed, some extended, demonstrating mysterious atmosphere.
After visiting the first floor exhibition hall, the audience will be introduced to the second floor. This space has eight parts, forming a surreal work and it focuses on the dialogue of contemporary art and architecture. It started with SLEEP, created by Salvador Dali, 1937. It is a really well-known painting, a big head supported by ‘reality’ crutches, a dreamland home hidden in the mind. If crutches are removed, the head will fall, then the dream will be awakened.
The exhibition also projected some movies, which are wildly and successfully expressive using the film images of the housing. Keaton，who is an American film maker, is good at using the comedy to caricature the real society. His work THE SCARECROW was a good sample to display a small room combining all the functions. Finally, the exhibition ended with Andrei Tarkovsky’s last film-Sacrifice, the memorable scenes about Alexander burning up his villa which means everything will be ended, bringing the audience from surreal back to reality.
The show’s overall effect is that it successfully created the sense of mystery which looks like a dream in the unconsciousness. Through the exhibition, visitors could further more know about the surrealism and understand what is surrealism.
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