Val Telberg: Un surréaliste américain à Paris
2024 will mark the centenary of one of the most fascinating and influential artistic movements of the 20th century. A hundred years ago, indeed, André Breton published the Surrealist Manifesto. The Centre Pompidou, which is preparing to celebrate this anniversary with a major exhibition, Le Surréalisme d’abord et toujours, has launched a call for projects - A Surrealist Season in Paris - to which Les Douches la Galerie has decided to respond. We have, therefore, decided to organize, from September 12 to November 10, 2024, a new exhibition dedicated to Val Telberg, entitled An American Surrealist in Paris. This will be an opportunity for the public to (re)discover a unique experimental work, composed mainly of superimposed images of characters in motion that present a dreamlike weightlessness associated with surrealism. The works of Val Telberg, who also created paintings, sculptures, and films, are part of numerous international public collections, including that of the Centre Pompidou. Four of his photomontages were, in fact, exhibited during the collective exhibition Corps à Corps – Histoire(s) de la photographie.