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Suprealist manifesto

"Suprealism brings popular kitsch into the art gallery and high culture to the masses; it introduces into art the naivety of the producer of kitsch while retaining the elitism of the professional artist."

Modernism emerged at the end of the nineteenth century in opposition to academic realism. It opened up the surface of appearances and represented the structure and essence of being. Often, autonomous structure prevailed and its environment was renounced; instead of rising to the spiritual order, flesh changed into a conserve. However, the masses still expect that art would has something to do with tangible substances, or at least with conceits of subconscious impulses or archetypal symbols. The man from the street expects to see in art a reflection of deceptive world. He desires nourishment for his soul and expects sentiment.

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The Eurozine Gallery features visual artists from all over Europe with series of photographs, paintings, or other types of art works.

Current exhibition:
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Previous exhibitions:
Leonhard Lapin
Suprealism
[Summer 2007]
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The wall
[Summer 2006]
Josef SchŸtzenhšfer
Art comes from labour
[Spring 2006]
Mircea Stanescu
Airbag
[Autumn 2005-Spring 2006]
Modernism represents the idea purified of all superficial additions. It rejects sentiment and eventually even beauty as an attribute of modern commerce. But the dream of external superficiality and a claim to internal idea are only two related poles of the world.

Suprealism was born in 1993 at Leonard Lapin's studio as an attempt at wholeness, totality, and a unity of contradictory visual images and structures. Suprealism uses, on the one hand, popular kitsch, clothing logos, and cheap expressions; and on the other, the exclusive language of classical modernism: suprematism, neoplasticism, op art, and pop art.

Suprealism introduces to art the unmediated/naive self-expression of a producer of kitsch, while retaining the mental effort and elitism of a professional artist.

Suprealism stirs the soul, excites the senses, bringing even the secretive spirit to the public parade of impulses. Even anger about the lack of ordinariness of suprematist work is positive, because it allows the eyes to see the world afresh, in a way which unites opposites.

Suprealism corrects the relationship between "high" and "low" art, bringing popular kitsch to exhibition halls and elitist ideas to the masses.

Suprealism is environmentally sustainable art, because it puts rejected things into new – this time cultural – circulation. By reviewing in a suprealist manner the kitsch which has gathered in your homes, you sharpen your analytic senses and get rid of the chains of mass culture. If you lift physical weights, you become a culturist. If you lift spiritual weights, you become a suprealist, who is free of the bondage of things.

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Published 2007-07-06


Original in Estonian
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Focal points

Climate of change?

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Green turnaround or business as usual in the global hothouse? Debating the politics of climate change. [more]

Dilemma 89

http://www.eurozine.com/comp/focalpoints/dilemma89.html
1989: not only historic moment of liberation, but also political and social dilemma for the present day. [more]

European histories

http://www.eurozine.com/comp/focalpoints/eurohistories.html
European solidarity requires a common history that accommodates the experiences of East and West. [more]

Editor's choice

Anders Ramsay
Marx? Which Marx?

http://www.eurozine.com/articles/2009-12-21-ramsay-en.html
Marx's naturalistic understanding of value has led interpreters to overlook the role played by credit, writes Anders Ramsay. [more]

Ewa Hess, Hennric Jokeit
Neurocapitalism

http://www.eurozine.com/articles/2009-11-24-jokeit-en.html
In a society that confronts the self with its own shortcomings, neuroscience serves an expanding market. [more]

Zoltan Tabori
Guns, fire and ditches

http://www.eurozine.com/articles/2009-12-15-tabori-en.html
On the spiral of anti-Roma violence in small communities facing increasing competition for employment and education. [more]

Literature

Katharina Raabe
As the fog lifted

http://www.eurozine.com/articles/2009-10-08-raabe-en.html
In the twenty years since the fall of communism, literature has been lifting the fog settled over eastern central Europe. [more]

Literary perspectives
The re-transnationalization of literary criticism

Eurozine's series of essays aims to provide an overview of diverse literary landscapes in Europe. Covered as yet: Croatia, Sweden, Austria, Estonia, Ukraine, Northern Ireland, Slovenia, the Netherlands and Hungary. [more]

Behind the headlines

Memorial
National images of the past

http://www.eurozine.com/2008-12-05-memorial-en.html
An appeal by the winners of the Sakharov Prize 2009 for a platform for historical reconciliation. [more]

Mykola Riabchuk
Metaphors of betrayal

http://www.eurozine.com/articles/2009-10-14-riabchuk-en.html
Any policy towards the Ukraine-Russia conflict that downplays values is fundamentally flawed, writes Mykola Riabchuk. [more]

Conferences

Eurozine emerged from an informal network dating back to 1983. Since that time, a variety of European cultural magazines have met once a year in European cities to exchange ideas and experiences. In the meantime, approximately 100 periodicals from almost every European country have become involved in these meetings.
European histories
The 22nd European Meeting of Cultural Journals
Vilnius, 8-11 May 2009

http://www.eurozine.com/comp/focalpoints/vilnius_european_histories.html
The 22nd European Meeting of Cultural Journals took place in Vilnius, Lithuania, 8 to 11 May 2009. Under the heading "European Histories", the Eurozine conference explored the role of history and memory in forming new identities in a Europe in change. [more]

Multimedia

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Multimedia section including videos of past Eurozine conferences in Vilnius (2009) and Sibiu (2007). [more]


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