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Dalí. All of the poetic suggestions and all of the plastic possibilities (25/04/2013)

April 27 - September 2, 2013 / Main site
The exhibition, a great success with the public when shown recently at the Centre Pompidou in Paris, aims to revalue Dalí as a painter, thinker, writer and creator of a peculiar vision of the world. One exceptional feature is the presence of loans from leading institutions like the MoMA (New York), which is making available the significant work The Persistence of Memory (1931); the Philadelphia Museum of Art, which is lending Soft Construction with Boiled Beans (Premonition of Civil War) (1936); the Tate Modern, whose contribution is Metamorphosis of Narcissus (1937); and the Musées Royaux des Beaux-Arts, Belgium, the lender of The Temptation of St Anthony (1946).
 
The public will be able to view some thirty works which have never before been seen in Spain. Some of the most important are Partial Hallucination: Six Apparitions of Lenin on a Piano, 1931 (Centre Pompidou, Paris); The Angelus of Gala, 1935 (The Museum of Modern Art, New York); Bathers, c. 1928 (The Salvador Dalí Museum, St. Petersburg, Florida); Geopoliticus Child Watching the Birth of the New Man, 1943 (The Salvador Dalí Museum, St. Petersburg, Florida), and Symbole agnostique (Agnostic Symbol), 1932 (Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia).
    
In the words of the curator Montse Aguer, this exhibition makes it possible for us to analyze Dalí’s artistic oeuvre and the different languages he employs, revealing his poetics to us. His finest work is not limited only to the invention of forms but also extends to poetic invention. In this respect, Dalí should be recognized as a leading renovator of the surrealist vocubulary, intensely committed to investigating the process of representing and interpreting what he observed and perceived.
         
The exhibition is made up of eleven sections containing not only paintings and drawings but also documentary material, photographs, Dalí’s own manuscripts, magazines and films of enormous importance for an understanding of the artist’s complex universe. The surrealist period constitutes the nucleus of the show at the Museo Reina Sofía, with special emphasis on the paranoiac-critical method developed by the artist as a mechanism for the transformation and subversion of reality.
 
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Organized by: Museo Reina Sofía and Centre Pompidou, Paris, in collaboration with the Salvador Dalí Museum Saint Petersburg (Florida). With the special collaboration of the Fundació Gala-Salvador Dalí, Figueres.
Chief Curator: Jean-Hubert Martin
Curators:  Montse Aguer (exhibition at the Museo Reina Sofía, Madrid),
Jean-Michel Bouhours and Thierry Dufrêne
Coordinator: Aurora Rabanal
         

With the support of: 

Exhibition organized by the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía and the Centre Pompidou, Paris:


 

With the special collaboration of:  

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 For further information, please download the full press release.