Editing Brion Gysin (section)

===Surrealism===
In 1934, he moved to Paris to study ''La Civilisation Française'', an open course given at the [[University of Paris|Sorbonne]] where he made literary and artistic contacts through Marie Berthe Aurenche, [[Max Ernst]]'s second wife.<ref name = "fmmdmv">Cf. John Geiger, 'Brion Gysin: His Life and Times' in ''Brion Gysin: Tuning into the Multimedia Age'', p. 204.</ref> He joined the Surrealist Group and began associating with [[Valentine Hugo]], [[Leonor Fini]], [[Salvador Dalí]], [[Picasso]] and [[Dora Maar]]. A year later, he had his first exhibition at the ''Galérie Quatre Chemins'' in Paris with Ernst, Picasso, [[Hans Arp]], [[Hans Bellmer]], [[Victor Brauner]], [[Giorgio de Chirico]], Dalí, [[Marcel Duchamp]], [[René Magritte]], [[Man Ray]] and [[Yves Tanguy]]. On the day of the preview, however, he was expelled from the Surrealist Group by [[André Breton]], who ordered the poet [[Paul Éluard]] to take down his pictures. Gysin was 19 years old. His biographer, John Geiger, suggests the arbitrary expulsion "had the effect of a curse. Years later, he blamed other failures on the Breton incident. It gave rise to conspiracy theories about the powerful interests who seek control of the art world. He gave various explanations for the expulsion, the more elaborate involving 'insubordination' or ''lèse majesté'' towards Breton".<ref name = "fmmdmv"/>