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From the newsdesk New exhibitions

"Art et Liberté"

Rupture, War and Surrealism

in Egypt (1938–1948): a forgotten chapter
of cultural history

Till October 15, 2017 at K20 Grabbeplatz, Düsseldorf, Germany

1938: in Berlin, Rome, and Moscow, the dictators are uments the history of the nearly forgotten Egyptian art-
at the zenith of their power, and a fascist seizure of ist's group "Art et Liberté", founded in Cairo in 1938 on
power is immanent in Spain as well. In many countries the eve of World War II.
around the world, poets and painters, filmmakers, and
photographers come together: for them, Surrealism is Through numerous hitherto unknown artworks and his-
an expression of cultural resistance against fascism, co- torical documents, the exhibition calls our attention to
lonialism, and nationalism. In this new exhibition, the the fact that in Cairo as well, the often provocative and
Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen in Dusseldorf doc- always poetic, subversive, anarchic Surrealist movement,

Anonymous: Members of "Art et Liberté" at Maison des artistes, Darb el-Labbana citadel, approx. 1945.
Collection Christophe Bouleau, Geneva © Kunstsammlung NRW
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