Surreal House at Barbican Art Gallery

The Surreal House at Barbican Art Gallery is open this summer and inviting visitors in for a trip into its twisted domestic interior. Featuring artists from the early days of Surrealism in the twenties right up to the present day, the Surreal House exhibition is a fantastic collection of film, art, architecture and design that explores the notion of the house as the perfect arena for rebellion.

The Surreal House
Barbican Art Gallery is hosting this major show containing work by several big name artists, including Marcel Duchamp, Salvador Dali, Rene Magritte, Edward Hopper, Man Ray and Louise Bourgeois. Filling the gallery space with their surreal take on the domestic dwelling, you are invited into a world of the subversive and irrational.

Domestic interiors
Reversing the trend for the modernist domestic interior which is clean and ordered, the Surreal House at Barbican Art Gallery takes the flip side of the functional house as its central theme. Exploring the surrealist legcay of artists such as Italian architect Carlo Mollino and Frederick Kiesler and his Endless House, as well as the more famous surrealists, this exhibition takes you into the darkest depths of the twisted house.

Surrealist history
Kicking against the Modernist aesthetic of clean lines and simplicity in the home, the early Surrealists were concerned to explore the truth behind the paired down domestic interior. In a sympathetic move, contemporary artists are reacting against the homogenised computer designed world with a counterpoint of surreal interior design. Presenting a surreal selection of dwellings and habitats such as the haunted house, the cave, the labyrinth, the ruined castle and even the womb, The Surreal House at Barbican Art Gallery delves into a dream world of the fabulous and fantastic.

Art, archictecture and film
By combining three different artistic elements the exhibition covers a wide range of Surreal art. For anyone who has never seen Surrealism before, The Surreal House at Barbican Art Gallery is the perfect introduction to the movement with work from some of their most famous artists included in the show. Sculptures by Louise Bourgeois and Rebecca Horn, installations by Ed and Nancy Kienholz, and architecture from John Hejduk rub shoulders with works by Dali, Ernst, Magritte and Duchamp. Here you can fully immerse yourself in the alien, the uncanny and of course the surreal.

Surreal Film House at Barbican

Barbican Weekender

The Surreal House at Barbican Art Gallery takes place from 11am - 8pm, with early closing on Tuesday and Wednesday at 6pm and late night until 10pm on Thursdays. The show runs from Thursday 10th June - Friday 17th September 2010.

Ticket prices for The Surreal House are £10.00, £8.oo for concessions, and £7.00 for members.

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