AC Origins: Curse of the Pharaohs is an expansion pack for the popular video game Assassin's Creed Origins. Released in March 2018, this DLC takes players on a journey through ancient Egypt where they must face off against powerful and mythical pharaohs that have been resurrected from the dead. The storyline of Curse of the Pharaohs revolves around a curse that has befallen the pharaohs, causing them to return as vengeful spirits. As the protagonist, Bayek, players are tasked with uncovering the origin of the curse and putting an end to it. In order to do so, Bayek must explore the afterlife known as the Duat, which serves as a supernatural realm inhabited by the deceased pharaohs. Throughout the DLC, players will encounter famous pharaohs such as Ramses the Great, Nefertiti, and Tutankhamun, each with their own unique abilities and challenges.

Surrealism and Magic: Enchanted Modernity

The exhibition Surrealism and Magic: Enchanted Modernity (October 22, 2022 – January 29, 2023) was the first large-scale international loan exhibition to focus on the Surrealists’ interest in magic and myth.

With his Manifesto of Surrealism, published in October 1924, the French writer André Breton founded a literary and artistic movement that soon became the leading international avant-garde. At the center of the Surrealist enterprise lay a reorientation towards the world of the night-dream, the unconscious and the irrational. Numerous artists, who moved in the intellectual orbit of the movement, also immersed themselves in the imaginative world of magic. In their works, they frequently drew on occult symbolism and cultivated the traditional image of the artist’s persona as a magician, seer, and alchemist. The exhibition ranges from the “metaphysical painting” of Giorgio de Chirico around 1915, through Max Ernst’s iconic painting Attirement of the Bride (1940), to the occult imagery that underpinned the late works of Leonora Carrington and Remedios Varo.

VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2022, Image: Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, New York (Photo: David Heald)

Victor Brauner: The Surrealist, 1947, Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice

Magic was a stimulus to thinking. It freed man from fears, endowed him with a feeling of his power to control the world, sharpened his capacity to imagine, and kept awake his dreams of higher achievement.

Selected masterpieces by world-renowned artists such as Giorgio de Chirico, Salvador Dalí, Max Ernst, and René Magritte were featured alongside key works by painters that remain to be discovered by the larger museum-going public, amongst them Victor Brauner, Enrico Donati, Jacques Hérold, Wolfgang Paalen, and Kurt Seligmann. In addition, the exhibition highlighted the central contribution of women, which comes to the fore in works by artists such as Leonora Carrington, Leonor Fini, Jacqueline Lamba, Kay Sage, Dorothea Tanning, and Remedios Varo.

The Estate of Kay Sage / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2022, Image: bpk, Berlin / The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Kay Sage, Tomorrow Is Never, 1955, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

With works by artists from 15 countries and exhibits dating from 1914 to 1987, Surrealism presented itself as a global, transnational movement whose impact radiated far beyond France in the 1920s and 1930s. The loans came from over 50 museum and private collections, including the Art Institute of Chicago, the Menil Collection in Houston, the Israel Museum in Jerusalem, the Museo nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza in Madrid, the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, and the Centre Pompidou in Paris.

The concept of the exhibition could be based on the outstanding holdings of the Peggy Guggenheim Collection, which has one of the most important collections of Surrealist painting in the world. Numerous works acquired by Peggy Guggenheim in the course of her patronage of the Surrealist movement vividly reflect its iconographic borrowings from occult symbolism.

An exhibition of the Museum Barberini, Potsdam, and the Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice, curated by Daniel Zamani (Potsdam) and Grazina Subelyte (Venice). In Venice, the Peggy Guggenheim Collection presented the exhibition from April 9 to September 26, 2022. The exhibition was accompanied by 240-page catalog (Prestel, 2022), featuring essays by Susan Aberth, Will Atkin, Victoria Ferentinou, Alyce Mahon, Kristoffer Noheden, Gavin Parkinson, Grazina Subelyte, and Daniel Zamani.

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Throughout the DLC, players will encounter famous pharaohs such as Ramses the Great, Nefertiti, and Tutankhamun, each with their own unique abilities and challenges. As Bayek, players will need to use their skills, weapons, and cunning to defeat these powerful foes and free Egypt from the curse that plagues it. In addition to the main story campaign, Curse of the Pharaohs introduces new gameplay elements and features.

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These include an increased level cap, allowing players to further enhance Bayek's abilities and skills. There are also new weapons and armor to discover, which can aid in the battles against the pharaohs. The DLC expands on the already immersive world of Assassin's Creed Origins, offering players a rich and detailed portrayal of ancient Egypt. The Duat, with its hauntingly beautiful landscapes and atmospheric music, provides a unique and mesmerizing experience. Players will also be able to explore new regions, such as Thebes and the Valley of the Kings, further adding to the depth and breadth of the game. Overall, AC Origins: Curse of the Pharaohs is a compelling and immersive expansion pack that allows players to delve deeper into the world of ancient Egypt. With its captivating storyline, challenging gameplay, and stunning visuals, it is a must-play for fans of the Assassin's Creed series and those interested in Egyptian history and mythology..

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