Surrealismos. La era de la máquina Group exhibition featuring Marcel Duchamp at Fundación Canal, Madrid

After the First World War, the world changed. In a devastated Europe, the focus of the avant-garde moved to the 'new world', to New York. There, the artists found a new point of reference in a more modern, technified and ebullient society: the machine, 'born without a mother', but feminine and erotic, which emerges from itself and reproduces itself without a model to imitate.

The exhibition Surrealismos. La era de la máquina (Surrealisms. The Age of the Machine) consists of 125 pieces, including paintings, photographs, prints, drawings, magazines, catalogues and books, sculptures and ready-made objects, and compilation boxes, presented in four sections: The New World and 'Pure Photography'; From the Artistic Nude to the Body as Machine; From Abstraction to the Machine; and Eros and Machine. With pieces by Duchamp, Man Ray, Picabia and Stieglitz, artists who broke with the academicist tradition and entered a new era of modernity: the age of the machine.