Roberto Matta: Le poėte (A poet we know) 1945 Centre Pompidou Matta's brutal figure pointing a revolver at the viewer opens this centenary show of Surrealism. The harsh yellow background shows through his body as if it is his navel. The reference by the young Chilean artist to 'a poet we know', is to André Breton. The exhibition radiates around the actual manuscript of André Breton's 1924 'Manifesto of Surrealism', lent by the Bibliothėque Nationale, : One hundred years later, we can affirm that the Surrealist movement has been very long-lasting- its influence is still around. The highpoint lasted four decades from the 1920s to the 1960s. New generations of artists added to or developed the movement in diverse ways. The exhibition has a very jocular entrance way - visitors walk through a monster's mouth: Strange sounds and murmurings accompany the visitor down a dark corridor with flickering portraits of the main protagonists- Breton, Ernst, Dali et al:...