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The Arts

Pinnacle keeps it surreal

Simoni Trapsioni’s “Adventure”

Simoni Trapsioni’s “Adventure” is on display at Pinnacle Gallery, 320 E. Liberty St., during “Wondrous Reality” Sept. 24 - Nov. 3.

By Hannah Pittard
Published: Friday, September 19, 2003

Pinnacle Gallery pays homage to Surrealism with a mixed-media exhibition “Wondrous Reality,” on display Sept. 24 - Nov. 3. Although Surrealism began primarily as a radical literary movement in the 1920s, its notoriety stems from the paintings and graphic work surrounding it. Founded by André Breton, Surrealism encouraged traditional and nontraditional imagery and claimed artists such as René Magritte, Man Ray, Jean Arp and Marcel Duchamp as its poster boys.

“Wondrous Reality” gives a nod not only to old-school Surrealists with inclusion of lithographs by Salvador Dalí (arguably the single-most well-known artist associated with the movement and known in particular for the process he described as “paranoiac critical”) and Hans Bellmer (known best for his creation of and obsession with life-sized female dolls in the 1930s), but to new-school Surrealists as well with work by SCAD alumni Michael Brown, Kishan Munroe, Chris Scarborough, Eric Standley and Simoni Trapsioni.

Like Dalí and Bellmer, Brown, Munroe, Scarborough, Standley and Trapsioni bring their unique interpretation of the movement to the exhibition. Especially striking are Trapsioni’s “Adventure” and Munroe’s “Island Dream.” Both paintings show special consideration of the movement’s history and seem less products of contemporary painting and more the lost efforts of some Dalí peer.

The death of Surrealism may be a widely argued topic, but “Wondrous Reality” certainly suggests that the movement is, in one way or another, very much alive.

“Wondrous Reality” is on display at Pinnacle Gallery, 320 E. Liberty St., Sept. 24 - Nov. 3. A reception will be held Oct. 3, 5-7 p.m. as part of the Savannah College of Art and Design’s monthly gallery hop.