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dreams and fantasies of surrealist Max Ernst

184 collages that the artist created for his novel "A week of kindness." The exhibition opens today at the National Art Museum and ends on October 17

dreams and fantasies of the Franco-German surrealist Max Ernst (1891-1976) first arrive in Mexico in an exhibition composed of 184 collages that artist created for his novel "A week of kindness."

"From the beginning we were very clear that Ernst's work had to visit Mexico, it is probably the Latin American country where the tradition of Surrealism has always been more alive, "Efe said the head of the sample, Pablo Jiménez Burillo.

In the surrealist tradition Mexico may include artists such as Leonora Carrington and Remedios Varo.

Ernst's work, entitled as his novel, set out from now until October 17 at Havana's National Museum of Art. Until a couple of years had only been seen in Madrid in 1936.

It took nearly three quarters of a century that the now owner of the work, the French collector Daniel Filipacchi, allow the Museum Vienna Albertina exhibit the work of Ernst, in 2008. Later could be seen in several European countries and Brazil.

"Ernst lived firsthand the collapse of the modern world against totalitarian regimes and (...) 'A week of kindness' wanted to act against it, do something that they all let out a really inflexible and indestructible" said Jiménez Burillo, director of the Fundación MAPFRE.

The work, also known as "The seven elements of capital" consists of five volumes of collages into seven sections representing the days of the week. Ernst

ordered them Sunday to Saturday instead of Monday to Sunday, "as an act of rebellion anti-establishment "as responsible for the sample.

Each day is accompanied by an element, a color and character. For example, Sunday is displayed with the purple, the mud and the lion, the green Monday , water and the woman, and on Tuesday with red, fire and dragon.

For the expert, Ernst advanced world that there was no "one way of living, feeling and thinking, but rather While every day there was a chance to build yourself your own world. "

The pieces, made during a three week trip to Italy that Ernst did, are inspired by the woodcuts illustrated the popular novels, and cuts in natural science journals and catalogs of the nineteenth century. Ernst was born in

Brul (Germany), and became a French citizen during one of his visits to the country. He studied philosophy and psychiatry at the University of Bonn, to enlist after the German army during the First World War.

then moved to Paris where he was introduced to Surrealism and created the technique of "fronttage" based on shading with pencil.

also participated as an actor in films Surrealists, among other films, starred in "The Golden Age," by Luis Buñuel, playing the role of chief villain.

His most important works are "L'elephant celebrate," "La femme 100 tetes," "Reve d'une petite fille qui voulut enter au Caramel" and "Une semaine de Bont, capitaux ou les éléments September.
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