This limited edition consists of the book L'atelier d'André Breton | Mur Mondes, numbered from 1 to 150, with a black marbled edge and an orange slipcase printed on both sides with objects making up the wall of André Breton's studio.
This work, published to coincide with the Centenary of Surrealism in 2024, gives full measure to this exceptional object-world, a veritable museum within the museum.
In 2003, a unique collection entered the Musée national d'art moderne: a section of André Breton's collection, exhibited on one of the walls of his studio at 42 rue Fontaine in Paris, the place where the poet and founder of surrealism lived and animated this decisive artistic and literary movement of the 20th century for more than forty years.
The objects in the "Breton Wall" come from various cultures and geographical areas: Oceania, the Americas, European folk art and modern art (including remarkable works by Douanier Rousseau, Joan Miró, Pablo Picasso, Francis Picabia, Valentine Hugo and Jean Degottex).
The "Breton Wall" was the subject of a famous photographic campaign by Sabine Weiss in 1960. This work, published to coincide with the Centenary of Surrealism in 2024, gives full measure to this exceptional object-world, a veritable museum within the museum.
Through international scientific contributions and the mobilization of expertise as numerous as the fields called upon by the André Breton collection, the challenge here is to study for the first time, in the form of a catalogue raisonné, all of the objects that make up this Wall and the poet's office.
A more speculative aspect finally aims to consider questions that are historical, anthropological and museum-related, while contributing decisively to this new aspect of surrealism.
