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(20 Oct 2022) GERMANY ART AND MAGIC

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LENGTH: 5'14''
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Potsdam – 20 October 2022
1. Wide of exhibition "Surrealism and Magic: Enchanted modernity" at the Museum Barberini
2. People in exhibition
3. Various of "Fear" by Yves Tanguy (1949)
4. Various of "Tomorrow is never" by Kay Sage (1955)
5. Wide of exhibition
6. SOUNDBITE: (German), Ortrud Westheider, Director, Museum Barberini
"We know about the dreams and the subconscious; we know about the focus on Freud and Jung. But what is little known is that surrealism is very concerned with old traditional occult science and pre-modern science like alchemy. And that is the focus here."
7. People in exhibition
8. Various of" The bewildered planet" by Max Ernst (1942)
9. Various of "Day and Night" by Max Ernst (1941-1942)
10. Various of "The king playing with the Queen" by Max Ernst (1944)
11. SOUNDBITE: (German), Daniel Zamani, Curator, Museum Barberini
"There are many pictures that are full of occult symbolism. Many surrealists were enthusiastic about the idea of the artists as a magician or alchemist, and they often painted themselves as magicians. There are pictures built on the iconography of alchemy, the iconography of the tarot cards."
12. Various of "The Guest Room" by Dorothea Tanning (1950-1952)
13. Various of "The magic flower game" by Dorothea Tanning (1941)
14. SOUNDBITE: (German), Daniel Zamani, Curator, Museum Barberini
"Surrealism developed in Paris in the 1920s but then it grew internationally incredibly fast. In the surrealism exhibition of 1938, 60 artists were represented. We are showing here 23 artists from 15 different countries."
15. Various of "Year of the fear" by Roberto Matta (1941)
16. Various of "Black magic" by Rene Magritte (1945)
17. SOUNDBITE: (German), Ortrud Westheider, Director, Museum Barberini
"I think that the painting today is once again focused on painting figures, so a lot of young artists are looking for this connection. But there is also the connection to the cosmos of chaos, with war and suffering and that concerns us."
18. Various of "The Nuptials" by Wifredo Lam (1947)
19. Various exteriors of the Museum Barberini
LEADIN:
A new art exhibition in Germany explores images of magic and the occult found within surrealist painting.
Many early surrealists were inspired by the supernatural, alchemy and pre-modern science.
STORYLINE
It is a world filled with symbolism and strangeness.
Of empty worlds that look a bit like or own, but at the same time very different.
Surrealist artists explore dreams, fantasies and the inner world.
But there is another side to surrealism, one that was also inspired by the occult, the supernatural and pre-modern thought.
"We know about the dreams and the subconscious; we know about the focus on Freud and Jung.," says Ortrud Westheider, Director, Museum Barberini
"But what is little known is that surrealism is very concerned with old traditional occult science and pre-modern science like alchemy. And that is the focus here."
An exhibition at the Museum Barberini in Potsdam, south of Berlin, is exploring the connection between surrealist art and the occult.
The paintings show landscapes and figures, but there is always an undertone of something darker. Something from another world.
"There are many pictures that are full of occult symbolism," says Daniel Zamani, Curator, Museum Barberini
In "The Guest Room" by the American artists Dorothea Tanning, two children are in a small room.
Another child is sleeping in a bed, holding a wooden doll.
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