Château Shatto, in active collaboration with the Lucid Art Foundation, presents an exhibition that revisits Dynaton and expands the artistic constellation set in motion by Wolfgang Paalen’s “Farewell to Surrealism” and crystallized in the 1951 San Francisco Museum of Art presentation of Gordon Onslow Ford, Wolfgang Paalen, Lee Mullican, and the philosophical writings of Jacqueline Johnson. 

Curated by Laura Whitcomb, and drawing on the scholarship and archives from the Lucid Art Foundation, the exhibition marks the first substantial museum-scale presentation of Dynaton in nearly thirty-five years. The ephemera room—featuring literature, photographs and notes—highlights Dynaton’s intent in relating art as epistemology. 

The exhibition also brings into focus artists within the orbit of Dynaton including Luchita Hurtado, Jeanne Reynal, Alice Rahon, Harry Partch and others. Taken together, these works frame Dynaton not as a closed historical episode but as an expanded field whose terms feel newly prescient—and prophetic in our current moment.