Conferences on Surrealism and Primitivism
February 25th, 2015
Sala Polivalente (Mercè Rodoreda Buiding - Ciutadella Campus)
The Research Center for Primitive Art and Primitivism is pleased to present the conference: Surrealism and Primitivism with guest speakers Sophie Leclercq & Marie Mauzé.
Picture: André Breton's studio
Program
| 11.00 | Welcome and opening speech: Estela Ocampo, Director of the Research Center for Primitive Art and Primitivism. |
| 11.15 - 12.15 | Sophie Leclercq: "Surrealism facing colonial policy" |
| 12.30 - 13.45 | Marie Mauzé: "Surrealism and ethnology. Notes on Seligmann, Paalen, Duthuit and Breton's views on Northwest Coast art and culture" " |
Guest Speakers
Sophie Leclercq: researcher at the Research and Teaching Department of Quai Branly Museum. She is also the chief director of Gradhiva Journal on anthropology and museology and professor at Versailles Saint-Quentin University, where she teaches "Colonial art and iconography" among other courses. One of her most renowned publications is La rançon du colonialisme - Les surréalistes face aux mythes de la France coloniale (1919-1962), an exhaustive key-monograph on the relationship between surrealism and colonialism. .
Marie Mauzé research director and member of Laboratoire d'Anthropologie Sociale at CNRS, Paris. She is one of the best experts on American Northwest Coast societies and she has solidly documented and published about the interest of surrealist artists on the native arts of that area.
Recently she was part of the scientific committee for the Surréalisme et Arts Primitifs exhibition at Fondation Pierre Arnaud (Lens, Switzerland).
Assistance
- Universitat Pompeu Fabra Facultad de Humanidades
- Centro Investigador en Arte primitivo y Primitivismo
Financing: "Primitivismo artístico en Europa y América. Relaciones, diferencias e identidades" (HAR2013-41219-P). Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad.