Second Surrealist Show in the UK

Exeter Festival of Modern Arts: Surrealism [Exhibition Poster]

Maddox, Conroy

Publication: Exeter, Great Britain: Exeter Festival of Modern Arts, 1967.

Notes: A poster for the first major exhibition of Surrealist art held in the UK since the 1936 show at the Burlington Galleries. It ran from April 24 to May 20, 1967, the year after the death of André Breton, the founder of Surrealism, André Breton, and before the social protests of 1968 briefly revived the movement and its focus on liberty, or what the critic Robert Hughes called in his review of the show, its goal "to break up the crust of dead rules, masquerading as rationalism, which encumbered the freedom of European society" (The Observer, May 7, 1967).

This poster is a three-color silkscreen measuring 20 by 30 inches.

The British Surrealist Conroy Maddox designed the poster. The show, hosted by the City of Exeter, included art, theater (the play The Labyrinth by Fernando Arrabal), film, poetry (readings by Charles Olson and others), and lectures.

Edition + Condition: With faint mat burn to the white outer margins; a few nicks on the edges. A nice example.

Item No: #362576

Price: $400