The Surrealist movement, born in the early 20th century, revolutionized art by proposing a bold new perspective on reality. One of the most fascinating aspects of this movement is its exploration of time, which defies the limits of logic and plunges us into a dreamlike, mysterious world.
Surrealist artists challenged our linear perception of time, seeking to capture the present moment and transcend temporal boundaries. They created works of art that defied chronology, blending past, present and future into a single enigmatic moment.
Salvador Dalí, for example, is known for his surrealist paintings that fuse incongruous elements to create strange landscapes. In his works, time seems to expand and bend, defying all rationality. The soft watches in his emblematic painting, "The Persistence of Memory", represent this idea of elastic, malleable time.
René Magritte, meanwhile, created enigmatic images that play with our perception of time and reality. His paintings, such as "La trahison des images" with the famous phrase "Ceci n'est pas une pipe", invite us to question our understanding of the world and temporality.
The concept of time, seen artistically, is a fascinating exploration that transcends the limits of our everyday reality. Artists have long sought to represent time in their works, to capture its fleeting, ephemeral essence.In painting, time can be symbolized by clocks, hourglasses or calendars, recalling the precision and regularity of its passage. Some artists, such as Salvador Dali, used soft watches in their work to represent the relativity of time, its capacity to distort and stretch. In short, the Surrealist movement opened new doors in our understanding of time. Surrealist artists challenged temporal conventions and limits, inviting us to explore inner worlds and alternative realities. Their work reminds us that time is a subjective notion, and that art can help us transcend temporal boundaries to connect with the present moment and our imaginations.
Marc FERRERO's Storytelling Art movement plunges you into a painted fiction to explore an alternative surrealist universe organized into a veritable empire: The Empire of Acceleration. Headed by a dark idol, a veritable rockstar and legions of fans who had followed in his footsteps, he was nicknamed the sorcerer of time, but the magic of colored time would confront him...
A large-format oil-painted fiction but also a graphic novel and an immersive exhibition, to awaken our minds, challenge our perceptions and plunge us into a world where time no longer follows any rules. 🎨🌌🕰️
