Courses and Seminars
International Seminar Surrealism and Its Double
1, 8, 15, 22 and 29 Oct, 2025
The year 2024 marked the one hundredth anniversary of the publication of the First Surrealist Manifesto. Throughout this centenary, we have witnessed a remarkable revival of interest in Surrealism. Exhibitions, reeditions, essays, monographs, and debates have brought back to the center of the discussion both its most emblematic figures and the new voices that can be linked to the movement in some way.
Surrealism and its double aims to go beyond honoring its founding mythologies to reflect on that transformation, addressing how it has been read, interpreted, and reformulated over time and how those discourses have contributed to shaping its legacy.
During five consecutive Wednesdays, the focus will be on key aspects of this contemporary re-reading: the retrospective and critical vision, its cross-border and cosmopolitan character, and its ability to transcend disciplines and generations. In addition, the complex and rich relationship between Pablo Picasso and Surrealism will be explored, reviewing both his debated participation in the movement and the tensions that marked that link.
For this purpose, we will have a program of lectures by internationally renowned scholars, specialists in different aspects of surrealism, who will share their most recent research and their innovative approaches.
This seminar, codirected by Eugenio Carmona, Professor at the Universidad de Málaga and Miguel López-Remiro, Artistic Director of the Museo Picasso Málaga, is free —prior registration through the website of Museo Picasso Málaga—, and is aimed at all those interested in surrealism and its contemporary expressions, without distinction of training or specialization.
Programme
FROM LICHTENBERG TO DOMÍNGUEZ
5 p.m. Welcome and presentation
5.15 p.m. Lichtenberg’s Slippers
Emmanuel Guigon. Director, Museu Picasso de Barcelona
6 p.m. Coffee break
6 p.m. Óscar Domínguez at the Peak of the Imaginary
Isidro Hernández. Chief Curator, TEA Tenerife Espacio de las Artes
7.15 p.m. Round Table with Emmanuel Guigon and Isidro Hernández
101 YEARS OF SURREALISMS
5 p.m. Presentation
5.15 p.m. From Automatism to ‘Mères’: Genetics of Surrealism
Didier Ottinger. Associate Director, Centre Pompidou, París
6 p.m. Coffee break
6.30 p.m. Surrealism for ‘Decolonial’ Times
Estrella de Diego. Full Professor of Art History, Universidad Complutense de Madrid
7.15 p.m. Round Table with Didier Ottinger and Estrella de Diego
TRANSATLANTIC SURREALISM
5 p.m. Presentation
5.15 p.m. André Breton and Aimé and Suzanne Césaire: A tropical surrealist trinity with neither father nor son
Daniel Maximin. Novelist, poet and essayist. Guadeloupe
6 p.m. Coffee break
6.30 p.m. Surrealism and Us: An Introduction
María Elena Ortiz. Curator, The Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Texas
7.15 p.m. Round Table with Daniel Maximin and María Elena Ortiz
PICASSO «OTHER»
5 p.m. Presentation
5.15 p.m. Cubism and the Theatre of Cruelty
Neil Cox. Head of the Leonard A. Lauder Research Center for Modern Art, New York
6 p.m. Coffee break
6.30 p.m. Picasso. From the ‘magic paintings’ to the psychogram
Eugenio Carmona. Full Professor of History of Art, Universidad de Málaga
7.15 p.m. Round Table with Neil Cox and Eugenio Carmona
FROM NEW YORK TO PICASSO
5 p.m. Presentation
5.15 p.m. ’Terra Incognita’: Notes on the Surrealist Years in the New York School
Miguel López-Remiro Forcada. Artistic Director, Museo Picasso Málaga
6 p.m. Coffee break
6.30 p.m. Picasso’s Surrealism Seen Through the Lens of ‘Structures of Invention’
Michael FitzGerald. Kluger Family Professor of Art History at Hartford Trinity College and Research Director at the Fundación Almine y Bernard Ruiz-Picasso
7.15 p.m. Round Table with Miguel López-Remiro and Michael Fitzgerald
7.45 p.m. Conclusions and Closing Remarks
Speakers
Related Exhibition
Pablo Picasso: Structures of Invention
Unity of a Life’s Work