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A total of 285 artworks and objects are brought together to create a dialogue in the exhibition Objects of Desire: Surrealism and Design, 1924-2020, which explores the relationship between the two disciplines over the last century.

Jointly organised by ”la Caixa” and the Vitra Design Museum, and featuring pieces from collections and museums from around the world, the exhibition at CaixaForum Barcelona features works by artists such as Salvador Dalí, Man Ray, Lee Miller, Giorgio de Chirico, René Magritte, Joan Miró, Marcel Duchamp and Meret Oppenheim, and designers and architects like Gae Aulenti, Le Corbusier, Antoni Gaudí, Ray Eames and Achille Castiglioni.

The subconscious, dream, eroticism, obsession, chance and the irrational were all elements that the Surrealist artists fused into their works, which were often everyday objects whose forms they altered and subverted. At a point where the discipline was most critical of rationalism, design also appropriated these elements.

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Mateo Kries, Director of the Vitra Design Museum and the exhibition curator, and Elisa Durán, Deputy General Director of ”la Caixa” Banking Foundation, have presented at CaixaForum Barcelona the exhibition Objects of Desire: Surrealism and Design, 1924-2020.

Objects of Desire: Surrealism and Design, 1924-2020, in CaixaForum Barcelona until 7th of June 2020.

Objects of Desire: Surrealism and Design, 1924-2020, in CaixaForum Barcelona, explores the fertile relationship between Surrealism and design over the last century.

Objects of Desire: Surrealism and Design, 1924-2020, jointly organised by ”la Caixa” and the Vitra Design Museum.

A total of 285 artworks and objects are brought together to create a dialogue in the exhibition Objects of Desire: Surrealism and Design, 1924-2020.

Objects of Desire: Surrealism and Design, 1924-2020 explores the relationship between the two disciplines over the last century.

Objects of Desire: Surrealism and Design, 1924-2020 features works by artists such as Salvador Dalí, Man Ray o Lee Miller.

Gae Aulenti, Tour, 1993 © Vitra Design Museum, photo: Jürgen HANS.

Iris van Herpen, Syntopia, look 9, F/W 2018. Courtesy of Iris van Herpen, Netherlands, photo: Yannis Vlamos.

Studio65, Bocca, 1970 © Gufram/Studio65, photo: Jürgen HANS © Vitra Design Museum.

Front, Horse Lamp, 2006 © Vitra Design Museum, photo: Andreas Sütterlin.1

Carlo Mollino, Arabesco, 1950 © Vitra Design Museum, photo: Jürgen HANS.

Carlo Mollino, Interior design for Casa Rivetti, Turin, 1949.Vitra Design Museum Archive.

Studio Wieki Somers, High Tea Pot, 2003 © Vitra Design Museum, photo: Andreas Sütterlin.

Pedro Friedeberg, Hand Chair, c. 1965 © Vitra Design Museum, photo: Andreas Sütterlin © Pedro Friedeberg, VEGAP, Barcelona, 2020.

Jasper Morrison, Interior design for Capellini, 1992. Courtesy of Jasper Morrison Ltd. and Capellini.

Aldo Tura, La pipa, c. 1960 © Vitra Design Museum, photo: Andreas Sütterlin.

Dan Tobin Smith, A Matter of Perspective, published in Wallpaper*, no. 69, June 2004, set design by Lyndsay Milne McLeod © Dan Tobin Smith.

Ingo Maurer, Porca Miseria!, 1994 © Ingo Maurer GmbH, Munich.

Piero Fornasetti, Wall plate from the series Tema e Variazioni, after 1950. Courtesy of Fornasetti.

Konstantin Grcic, Coathangerbrush, re-edition for Muji, 2002. Courtesy of Ryohin Keikaku Co., Ltd.

Frederick Kiesler, Correalistic Rocker, 1942 © Vitra Design Museum, photo: Jürgen HANS.

Audrey Large, TP-TS-12 Mocap, 2018. Courtesy of Audrey Large and Nilufar Gallery, Milan.

Nacho Carbonell, Table Cocoon 8, 2015. Courtesy of Carpenters Workshop Gallery.

Isidro Fainé, chairman of ”la Caixa” Banking Foundation.

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Statements Mateo Kries, curator of the exhibition Objects of Desire: Surrealism and Design, 1924-2020. CaixaForum Barcelona.

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