Núcleo 2 DYN

In April 1942, the first issue of the magazine DYN was published, featuring the text "Adiós al surrealismo" ("Goodbye to Surrealism"), written by Paalen. In this sort of manifesto, a break with Breton and his group was announced, as well as the pursuit of a dissenting surrealism that, among other things, distanced itself from European cultural and artistic paradigms and sought a reconciliation between science and art. Alice Rahon participated in all six issues of DYN, which were published between 1942 and 1944, both with her poems and with her new plastic production.

Through her textual and visual collaborations, interests and concerns can be detected that became decisive for the rest of her career. An example of this is the symbolic potential she saw in the landscape, reflected in her poems about the Iztaccíhuatl volcano. Her early plastic work, published in DYN, allows us to appreciate her interest in formal experimentation, in plastic automatism techniques, as well as in material research. Similarly, it reflects the articulation of an aesthetic consciousness that investigates archaic artistic references, typical of the American continent or derived from scientific visualizations. Examples of her interest in an aesthetic of archaic appearance are found in an untitled work from 1945, as well as in "Paisaje cósmico" (Cosmic Landscape) from 1944, undoubtedly one of the first prints that engaged with the realistic tradition of that discipline in Mexico.