BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.4.5//EN TZID:Europe/London X-WR-TIMEZONE:Europe/London BEGIN:VEVENT UID:2503@artinliverpool.com DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London;VALUE=DATE:20171117 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London;VALUE=DATE:20180319 DTSTAMP:20170713T150038Z URL:https://www.artinliverpool.com/events/tate-liverpool-surrealism-egypt- art-et-liberte-1938-1948/ SUMMARY:Tate Liverpool: Tate Liverpool: Surrealism in Egypt: Art et Libert é 1938 – 1948 DESCRIPTION:Surrealism in Egypt: Art et Liberté 1938 – 1948\n\nTate Live rpool\n17 November 2017 – 18 March 2018\n\n£10.00 / £8.00 (Includes en trance into John Piper)\nSupported by The Montblanc Cultural Foundation a nd University of Liverpool\n\nTate Liverpool presents the UK’s first com prehensive exhibition about Art et Liberté. A radical collective of artis ts and writers based in Cairo\, their body of work forms an underrepresent ed yet distinct chapter in the history of surrealism. The exhibition track s the history of the group \, presenting more than 100 paintings\, photogr aphs\, drawings\, archival documents and film – most of which haven’t been shown in the UK.\n\nAligning themselves with the European artists who se modernist works were being classed as ‘degenerate’ in Nazi Germany\ , Art et Liberté published their manifesto Long Live Degenerate Art on2 2 December1938. It marks the founding of the group and was written in res ponse to the local rise of fascism. Working within the context of the Sec ond World War and Egypt’s colonial rule by the British Empire\, Art et Liberté provided a restless generation of young artists\, intellectuals and political activists with a platform for cultural and political reform .\n\nSurrealism in Egypt: Art et Liberté 1938-1948 explores the socio-po litical motivations that drove the collective. Works such as Coups de Bâ tons 1937 by Mayo reflect the widespread injustices the group witnessed\, the title a direct comment on police brutality used to disperse crowds du ring protests.  Art et Liberté also addressed issues faced by women\, an d the group included several prominent female artists such as Inji Efflato un\, and Amy Nimr. In contrast to other surrealist groups\, Art et Libert é’s treatment of the female body was not framed by the erotic male gaze \, aiming instead to show the suffering and objectification of women. Kame l El Telmissany’s Nude 1941\, for instance\, comments on the increase of prostitution due to the influx of British soldiers in Cairo.\n\nWhile A rt et Liberté were inscribed in a wider global network of surrealist arti sts and thinkers\, Ramses Younane\, one of the group’s central figures\, identified the need for a new form of surrealism. Achieving a contemporar y artistic and literary language that was globally informed\, yet locally orientated\, ‘subjective realism’ drew on real-world\, recognisable mo tifs\, alongside those driven by the subconscious. The exhibition also exp lores experiments in photography undertaken by members of the collective\, notably Ida Kar\, and Lee Miller\, and highlights the exchange between it s artists and writers in a truly interdisciplinary spirit. Included in Su rrealism in Egypt are works of literature created as a result of these co llaborations by writers including Georges Henein\, a founder member of Art et Liberté and Albert Cossery.\n\nSurrealism in Egypt: Art et Liberté 1 938 – 1948 is curated by Sam Bardaouil and Till Fellrath of Art Reorien ted in collaboration with Kasia Redzisz\, Senior Curator and Tamar Hemmes\ , Assistant Curator at Tate Liverpool. It will be shown in parallel with  John Piper and Mary Reid Kelley. ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.artinliverpool.com/wp-content/upload s/2017/07/some_of_the_art_and_liberty_group_members_at_their_second_exhibi tion_of_independent_art_in_cairo_1941_1.jpg LOCATION:Tate Liverpool\, Albert Dock\, Liverpool\, L3 4BB\, Liverpool\, Un ited Kingdom GEO:53.4003;-2.9927 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Albert Dock\, Liverpool\, L 3 4BB\, Liverpool\, United Kingdom;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Tate Liverpo ol:geo:53.4003,-2.9927 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Europe/London X-LIC-LOCATION:Europe/London BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20171029T010000 TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:GMT END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR