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September 2024
Guillaume Benoit

Georges Goldfayn, a surrealistic passion Galerie Berthet-Aittouarès, Paris

A fabulous collection at the Galerie Berthet-Aittouarès reveals a personality full of nuance and sparkle. Playing on the variety of Georges Goldfayn eye directly involved in the Surrealist revolution, the exhibition pays superb tribute to this former friend and collaborator of Breton, thrown into the bath of vibrant avant-garde art as soon as he entered adulthood.

Ambitious and generous, A surrealistic passion offers a stunning and eclectic display of artworks imbued with a striking logic. From painting to photography and from drawing to sculpture, forms and ideas jostle for position, full of gravity and joy, before the outraged eyes of totemic figures from Oceanic art.

The inexhaustible range of perspectives is as much a portrait of the collector as it is of an era, when the great upheaval of the established order only made sense through an insatiable curiosity about other art histories and a belief in a different way of inventing our own. In this respect, the exceptional artworks of Toyen (A l'affut de la pensée, 1956 and a splendid collage from 1967), Konrad Klapheck (Die ungeschriebenen Gesetze (The Unwritten Laws), 1962), Jindrich Heisler (Philosophy in the Boudoir (Homage to the Marquis de Sade), 1943) and Hervé Télémaque (Untitled, 1962) provide magnetic beacons in this profusion of portraits of a humanity to be reinvented.

The strength of this exhibition lies in the fact that the very life of this passenger of the arts is reflected in the exceptional documents carefully displayed, allowing the biographical aspect of these artistic emotions to be expressed without imposing or freezing a reading.

View of the exhibition Georges Goldfayn, A surrealistic passion — Galerie Berthet-Aittouarès, 2024

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