From April 1947 to October 1969, Toyen—who had by then settled in France for good—attended the daily meetings of the Surrealists (occasionally even several times a day), collaborating on the projects, exhibitions, games, collective declarations, and publications of the Parisian Surrealist group surrounding André Breton.
How did the political, moral, and poetic positions of the group, as well as the new themes that had begun to resonate after World War II, inform her own works? Conversely, what response did her work elicit in the young generation of Paris Surrealist poets and painters of the period?
Bertrand Schmitt—film director, poet, essayist, member of the Paris Group of the Surrealist Movement and of the Czech and Slovak Surrealist group—will address some of these questions, focusing on selected major works and moments of Toyen’s life and oeuvre during her stay in France between the 1950s and 1960s.
The lecture will be held in French with Czech subtitles and it will be hosted by Markéta Ježková.
The cycle of lectures for the NGP exhibition Toyen: The Dreaming Rebel will focus on Toyen’s paintings, drawing series, and illustrations. Attention will be paid to the artist’s works from the 1920s to her late years. Her life and career will be set in historical and artistic contexts linked to the Surrealist groups in Czechoslovakia and France. Additionally, the painter’s oeuvre will be viewed from the perspective of contemporary art tendencies. The lecture by Meghan Forbes from the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, delivered in English, will analyse the tourist guidebook to Paris from the 1920s that Toyen published together with her Czech friends living in this bohemian metropolis. In his lecture, delivered in French, Bertrand Schmitt, a director, poet, essayist, and member of the Paris Surrealist Group, will focus on the painter’s contacts with the Paris Surrealists and their mutual inspiration. These lectures will be broadcast with Czech subtitles. The cycle will include further lectures in Czech that will be presented by Barbora Bartůňková, Jaromír Typlt, Michal Novotný, Martina Pachmanová, Anna Pravdová, Anna Smékalová, and Jindřich Toman. The hosts of the cycle will be Markéta Ježková, Jitka Šosová, Alena Štěrbová, and Monika Švec-Sybolová.
Price: free / Duration: approximately 70 min. / Place: FB NGP
How did the political, moral, and poetic positions of the group, as well as the new themes that had begun to resonate after World War II, inform her own works? Conversely, what response did her work elicit in the young generation of Paris Surrealist poets and painters of the period?
Bertrand Schmitt—film director, poet, essayist, member of the Paris Group of the Surrealist Movement and of the Czech and Slovak Surrealist group—will address some of these questions, focusing on selected major works and moments of Toyen’s life and oeuvre during her stay in France between the 1950s and 1960s.
The lecture will be held in French with Czech subtitles and it will be hosted by Markéta Ježková.
The cycle of lectures for the NGP exhibition Toyen: The Dreaming Rebel will focus on Toyen’s paintings, drawing series, and illustrations. Attention will be paid to the artist’s works from the 1920s to her late years. Her life and career will be set in historical and artistic contexts linked to the Surrealist groups in Czechoslovakia and France. Additionally, the painter’s oeuvre will be viewed from the perspective of contemporary art tendencies. The lecture by Meghan Forbes from the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, delivered in English, will analyse the tourist guidebook to Paris from the 1920s that Toyen published together with her Czech friends living in this bohemian metropolis. In his lecture, delivered in French, Bertrand Schmitt, a director, poet, essayist, and member of the Paris Surrealist Group, will focus on the painter’s contacts with the Paris Surrealists and their mutual inspiration. These lectures will be broadcast with Czech subtitles. The cycle will include further lectures in Czech that will be presented by Barbora Bartůňková, Jaromír Typlt, Michal Novotný, Martina Pachmanová, Anna Pravdová, Anna Smékalová, and Jindřich Toman. The hosts of the cycle will be Markéta Ježková, Jitka Šosová, Alena Štěrbová, and Monika Švec-Sybolová.
Price: free / Duration: approximately 70 min. / Place: FB NGP
TOYEN
ET LE GROUPE SURRÉALISTE PARISIEN (1947-1969) : AMITIÉS
ET QUÊTE POÉTIQUE
D’avril 1947 à octobre 1969, Toyen, définitivement installée en France, participa quotidiennement aux réunions surréalistes et collabora aux projets, expositions, jeux, tracts collectifs et publications du groupe surréaliste parisien à nouveau réuni autour d’André Breton.
Comment les prises de positions politiques, morales, poétiques ainsi que les nouvelles thématiques développées après-guerre par les surréalistes parisiens résonnèrent-elles avec sa création ? Comment son œuvre pu, en retour, marquer la jeune génération des poètes et peintres surréalistes réunis à Paris ? Bertrand Schmitt, réalisateur, poète, essayiste, membre du groupe de Paris du mouvement surréaliste et du groupe surréaliste tchèque et slovaque, abordera certains de ces aspects autour de quelques œuvres emblématiques et de moments essentiels du parcours de Toyen dans les années 1950 et 1960 en France.
La lecture se déroulera en français avec les sous-titres tchéques.
Prix: gratuit / Durée: approximatevement 70 minutes / Lieu: FB NGP
Comment les prises de positions politiques, morales, poétiques ainsi que les nouvelles thématiques développées après-guerre par les surréalistes parisiens résonnèrent-elles avec sa création ? Comment son œuvre pu, en retour, marquer la jeune génération des poètes et peintres surréalistes réunis à Paris ? Bertrand Schmitt, réalisateur, poète, essayiste, membre du groupe de Paris du mouvement surréaliste et du groupe surréaliste tchèque et slovaque, abordera certains de ces aspects autour de quelques œuvres emblématiques et de moments essentiels du parcours de Toyen dans les années 1950 et 1960 en France.
La lecture se déroulera en français avec les sous-titres tchéques.
Prix: gratuit / Durée: approximatevement 70 minutes / Lieu: FB NGP
