Magma x Centre Pompidou - Nouvelles Enquêtes Surréalistes

In celebration of the centenary of Surrealism and the museum’s major retrospective, Magma Journal and the Centre Pompidou have revived surrealist inquiries in a special edition of the publication.

This special edition newspaper brings together over 150 artists, writers, musicians, filmmakers, photographers, designers, and academics from around the world. These unpublished contributions echo the original responses of the Surrealists.

Between 1919 and 1957, the Surrealists conducted twenty-two inquiries among hundreds of their contemporaries, covering topics ranging from art to sexuality. Often overlooked by posterity, these inquiries are nonetheless an integral part of the movement, embodying its ambition to gather "the greatest possible number of experimental data" on reality, to interpret it, and thereby transform it. Four emblematic questions from these inquiries have been revi- sited by 150 contemporary voices: writers, filmmakers, intellectuals, and artists, both French and international. Their responses could take the form of a text, ranging from a sentence to a paragraph, or an artwork — painted, drawn, photographed — created for the occasion.

The project is led by Magma Journal together with both curators of the Surrealist exhibition, Didier Ottinger and Marie Sarré, and Jean-Max Colard, head of the museum’s Service de la Parole, with the Service de la Parole team.

Contributors: 

        Marina Abramovic
        Jakuta Alikavazovic
        Giulia Andreani
        Christine Angot
        Louis Aragon
        Jean Arp
        Jacques Audiard
        Mathias Augustyniak
        Nathalie Azoulai
        David B.
        Thomas Bangalter
        Georg Baselitz.
        Emmanuelle Bayamack-Tam
        Philippe Beck
        Emma Becker
        Anne Berest Picabia
        Gérard Berréby
        Christopher Bollen
        Nina Bouraoui
        Mohamed Bourouissa
        Joë Bousquet
        Frédéric Boyer Brassaï
        André Breton
        Vincent Broqua
        Luis Buñuel
        Pierre Buraglio
        Claude Cahun
        Belinda Cannone
        Leos Carax
        Théo Casciani
        Barbara Cassin
        Arnaud Cathrine
        Mary Ann Caws
        Blaise Cendrars
        Marc Chagall
        Patrick Chamoiseau
        René Char
        Emmanuelle Charpentier
        Barbara Chase-Riboud
        Xinyi Cheng
        Hélène Cixous
        Thomas Clerc
        Jonathan Coe
        Clément Cogitore
        George Condo
        Vincent Corpet
        Stephan Crasneanscki
        Rachel Cusk
        Jean D'Amérique
        Étienne Daho
        Kamel Daoud
        Marie Darrieussecq
        Lenora de Barros
        Maylis de Kerangal
        Hélène Delprat
        Erri De Luca
        Léonor de Récondo
        François-Henri Désérable
        Robert Desnos
        Vinciane Despret
        Laurent de Sutter
        Patrick Deville
        Alexandra Dezzi
        Ricardo Domeneck
        Arthur Dreyfus
        Esther Duflo
        Olafur Eliasson
        Paul Éluard
        Simone Fattal
        Logan February
        Esther Ferrer
        Frederika Amalia Finkelstein
        Alain Fleischer
        Dominique Fourcade
        Christophe Fourvel
        Bettina Funcke
        Christian Garcin
        Alberto Giacometti
        Liliane Giraudon
        Nicolas Godin
        Ferdinand Gouzon
        Emmanuel Guibert
        Cécile Guilbert
        Yannick Haenel
        Leonardo Heiblum
        Nathanaëlle Herbelin
        Thomas Hirschhorn
        Célia Houdart
        Anne Imhof
        Max Jacob
        Simon Johannin
        Carl Gustav Jung
        Leslie Kaplan
        William Kentridge
        Alicja Kwade
        Arnaud Labelle-Rojoux
        Marie-Hélène Lafon
        Lola Lafon
        Camille Laurens
        Nathalie Léger
        Laure Limongi
        Amin Maalouf
        Marielle Macé
        Felix Macherez
        René Magritte
        India Mahdavi
        Man Ray
        Philippe Mangeot
        Christophe Manon
        Nicolas Mathieu
        Ramuntcho Matta
        Philippe Mayaux
        Mohamed Mbougar Sarr
        Paul McCarthy
        Annette Messager
        Michèle Métail
        Léonora Miano
        Paul Morand
        Jean-Luc Moulène
        María Negroni
        Gaëlle Obiégly
        Orlan
        Gilles Ortlieb
        Orhan Pamuk
        Matthieu Peck
        Charles Pennequin
        Valentine Penrose
        Nicolas Pesquès
        Elizabeth Peyton
        Picha
        Lolita Pille
        Claude Ponti
        Laure Prouvost
        Rachilde
        Martial Raysse
        Jacques Réda
        Pierre Reverdy
        Blandine Rinkel
        Catherine Robbe-Grillet
        Ed Ruscha
        Christine Safa
        Marjane Satrapi
        Peter Saville
        Jean-Jacques Schuhl
        Ryoko Sekiguchi
        John Jefferson Selve
        Jean-Claude Silbermann
        Leïla Slimani
        Kiki Smith
        Patti Smith
        Seynabou Sonko
        Miriam Stoney
        Martine Syms
        Pol Taburet
        Georgina Tacou
        Joséphine Tassy
        Arthur Teboul
        Wolfgang Tillmans
        Kinga Tóth
        Andra Ursuța
        Paul Valéry
        Laura Vazquez
        Anne Weber
        Erwin Wurm
        Nina Yargekov
        Yasmin Zaher
        Stephan Zimmerli

ISBN: 978-2-9587243-1-3
Length: 40 pages
Language: French
Dimensions: 315 × 470 mm
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