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Among the luminaries attending the opening of the Exposicin Internacional dei Surrealismo at the Galeria de Arte Mexicano on a Wednesday evening, January 17, 1940 were two foreigners who had organized the exhibit. In one photo the painter Wolfgang Paalen, "saboreando un exquisito 'wiskey,'" poses with three others including Ins Amor-the gallery owner-and Salvador Novo. In another, Csar Moro inclines slightly toward the camera and smiles, chatting with Elias Nandino and Juan Soriano in a press of black jackets and e\'ening gowns. Nobodv in either picture pays the slightest attention to the art- works visible in the backgrounds. Neither does Excesior, where these two photos appeared side-by-side on the second page of the second section, Saturday the 20*. Its review mentions the exhibit itself only as a pretext to chronicle the "brillante acontecimiento social, al que concurrieron las ms destacadas personalidades de nuestros crculos artsticos y literarios". even lower. One chronicler, Roberto Manzanares, singles out works by both Paalen md Moro for sarcastic scorn, perhaps in payback for hav- ing inflicted the exhibit on an unsuspecting public. Of Paalen's Combate de los Prncipes Saturnianos (1938), he says: l, y nadie ms que l, sabr por qu. Los prncipes peleen denodadamente; no hay ms que verlo... Terminarn hacindose dao, como si estuviesen en las Lneas Siegfrid y Maginot. Qu imprudentes son estos prncipes saturninos, es decir, saturnianos

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