This exceptional exhibition makes a complete assessment of one of the
most active movements of the beginning of the XXth century :
Dadaism. 100 works signed by more than 50 artists are presented
there. They come from the collections of the Center George Pompidou
itself, of private collectors as well as MOMA. The Museum of
Modern art of New York lends a hundred works for the event which will
migrate thereafter for Washington and Manhattan. Born during the autumn
1916, this revolutionary artistic movement decides to break with the
academic and conventional values. Its almost ridiculous name was
born randomly from letters picked in a dictionary by some taken
intellectuals hiden in Zurich, in a Cabaret named Voltaire. Tristan
Tzara, Hans Arp, Hugo Ball, Duchamp, Picabia, Max Ernst among others,
worked this provocation by renewing the media and the supports of the
time and by claiming that everything could become art. The
industrial object deserves a new glance and becomes also art objetc as
the famous urinal from Marcel Duchamp. The Mona Lisa with moustache
LHOOQ also points out it to us. This non-conformist energy will
inspire the artists until 1924, it will be relayed then by a surrealism
even more innovating.
