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...change the world." A decade since the National Gallery of Australia's "Surrealism: Revolution by Night" reunited the Antipodeans with their contemporaries overseas, the Agapitos/Wilson Collection consolidates their place on the Surrealist world map. In 1936, the same year Dal? appeared on the cover of Time ("A blazing pine tree, an Archbishop, a giraffe and a cloud of feathers went out the window"), Melbourne-born Cant was busily assembling his wild lampshade and birdcage sculptures in London. Sadly, none survives, but Cant was at the epicenter of the movement's "chance encounter of a sewing machine and an umbrella...
...would return to England, the movement stayed. And the Agapitos/Wilson Collection makes marvellously clear how this "whore of the polymorphous," as James puts it, sunk its tentacles deep into the body of Australian art. Its spirit can be traced through the floating cow canvases of Sidney Nolan, the twisted tree trunks of Russell Drysdale's drawings, and the veil-like fish net that descends on Max Dupain's 1936 photo of a naked bride. What emerged was perhaps not pure Surrealism, but a psychological shift which was true to a movement that sought, above all, to liberate the mind...
...plenty of tears are all there. But everything is deftly updated. In the first of three dance sequences, for example, Roshan puts on a display of body popping and moonwalking that banishes the possibility of a self-respecting Indian male lead ever again sashaying suggestively around a pine tree. Likewise, his love interest (Preity Zinta) is an ambitious newsreader unafraid (horror!) to date other men or even (the horror! The horror!) cut her hair short...
...female elephants?Champen, Lawann, Tantawan and Yom. Riding one of them is as fun as it looks: nudge both her ears to move forward, squeeze your knees together to stop, rock backwards to reverse, be patient when she pauses to relieve herself or yank the shoots off a tree (which happens about every 30 seconds...
...even if you haven't crashed in the traffic maelstrom or been totaled by zigzagging three-wheelers?you'll be in serious need of some rest and rejuvenation. Bliss it is, then, to pass through the Sanctuary Spa's pebbled portal, catching sight and scent of a blossoming frangipani tree...