A local artist is celebrating the success of an exhibition at the Salford Art Gallery to celebrate 100 years of surrealism.
The exhibition, Omnipotence of Dream, has been curated by Dr. David Hancock to show the importance of surrealism across the ages.
The local artist Dr. David Hancock, will be using the work from fine art students of the University of Salford, as well as Leeds Arts University to provide a modern take on the art form.
The students work will be exhibited alongside originals from the gallery’s collection and celebrate the art form.
The display of work will also includes Dr. Hancock’s solo exhibition, which features many of his surrealist artworks, as well as drawing inspiration from the archive pieces.
The exhibition at the Salford Art Gallery will mark 100 years of surrealism, a movement that was started by Andre Breton who wrote the first Surrealist Manifesto of 1924.
In celebration, Dr. Hancock said: “I’ve been really interested in surrealism for, maybe about the past five years and it’s been something that I’ve been researching.
“I’ve been writing some academic papers on it as well as making my own artwork, which features in the exhibition.”
He continued “I think the links to the university are really key. I think without the university, this project wouldn’t have been able to kind of exist in the way that it does, because I think the students add so much to the exhibition.”
“Their contributions kind of really bring those ideas that those surrealist artists were looking at right into the present.
“I think for a lot of the students, they’re experiencing a lot of those issues now,” he added.
The show will be able to demonstrate work of past and present, as Dr. David Hancock believes that the combination of new work and old makes for a fascinating exhibition that will be free to enter.
As the Salford Artist continued: “Salford has got this really amazing collection of surrealism, a lot of which have never been shown before.
“So it was a really great opportunity to bring that work out of the archive and put it on show.
“All the work in the show is responding to that collection and bringing it up to the present, so without it being based in Salford, it could never have happened really.”
The exhibition opened on October 19 and runs until February 23, and will feature six artworks from the collections have been used as inspiration taken from the galleries archive.
And the work itself comes from 16 contemporary artists that include Sarah Eyre, Jeffrey Knopf, Olha Pryymak and Paula Chambers.
The exhibition is free to enter, and will offer the opportunity for guests to visit the world of surrealism at the Salford Art Gallery.
More information about the Omnipotence of Dream exhibition can be found here.
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