This exhibition at Moderna Museet centres on Art et Liberté, a group of Egyptian thinkers and surrealist artists who launched their collective with a manifesto entitled “Long Live Degenerate Art” in 1938. As a group of left-wing and anti-fascist theorists and artist, the group was a petri-dish for new ideas and resistance to colonialism, as well as the home for a new and unique language of surrealist art and literature. This exhibition features more than 200 artworks and documents, and has already been on display at the Centre Pompidou in Paris and the Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen K20 in Düsseldorf. It opens in Stockholm in April.
Art et Liberté: Rupture, War and Surrealism in Egypt 1938-48. Moderna Museet, On display between April 28 and September 12.
Photo: Ramsès Younane, Untitled, 1939, Oil on canvas. Courtesy H. E. Sh. Hassan M. A. Al Thani collection, Doha
© Ramsès Younane
