Salvador Dali'
dal 28/6/2008 al 14/9/2008
Segnalato da
28/6/2008
Salvador Dali'
The Museum of Modern Art - MoMA, New York
Bringing together more than 130 paintings, drawings, scenarios, and films by the spanish artist (1904-1989), this exhibition explores the role that cinema played in his work. Both an inspiration and an outlet for experimentation, film was Dali's passion, and cinematic vision became a model for his own work. Collaborations between him and legendary filmmakers are displayed alongside his paintings and other works, illuminating the ways in which ideas, iconography, and pictorial strategies are shared and transformed across mediums.
Bringing together more than 130 paintings, drawings, scenarios, and films by Salvador Dalí (1904–1989), this exhibition explores the role that cinema played in the artist's work. Both an inspiration and an outlet for experimentation, film was Dalí's passion, and cinematic vision became a model for his own work. Collaborations between Dalí and legendary filmmakers are displayed alongside his paintings and other works, illuminating the ways in which ideas, iconography, and pictorial strategies are shared and transformed across mediums.
Among the provocative works on display are Un Chien andalou, a film made with Luis Buñuel, which features the notorious, almost unwatchable sequence of an eye being slit by a razor; L'Age d'Or, another collaboration with Buñuel and one of the landmarks of Surrealist film; projects undertaken in Hollywood with Alfred Hitchcock and Walt Disney; and such important paintings as The First Days of Spring and Illumined Pleasures. In conjunction with the gallery exhibition, a series of screenings in the MoMA theaters presents the classic and avant-garde motion pictures Dalí treasured, films on which he collaborated, and examples of his legacy in contemporary cinema.
Salvador Dalí was born in Figueres, Spain, on May 11, 1904. Sala Edison, the first cinema in Figueres, opened seven months later—a curious convergence that foreshadowed Dalí's enduring relationship with the cinema. The cross-fertilization of ideas, influences, and new cinematic technology created a truly modern means of artistic expression for Dalí and his colleagues; his was the first generation of artists who engaged the emergent medium as a fundamental component of their aesthetic process. The limitless capacity of the camera lens and the time-bending properties of montage liberated Dalí from the static temporal and spatial boundaries of his audacious paintings.
Un Chien andalou (1929), Dalí's first partnership with Luis Buñuel, reveals the artist's tendency toward collaboration—a fundamental quality of filmmaking. This exhibition considers Dalí's role as both a creator and a collaborator in the design of cinematic pictorial strategies that incorporate elements of Surrealism, theatricality, and motion picture technology.
Coordinated for MoMA by Jodi Hauptman, Curator, Department of Drawings. The film exhibition is organized by Anne Morra, Assistant Curator, Department of Film.
Online exhibition: http://moma.org/exhibitions/2008/dali
The exhibition was organized by Tate Modern, London, in collaboration with the Fundació Gala-Salvador Dalí, Figueres, Spain, and The Museum of Modern Art.
Major support is provided by an indemnity from the Federal Council on the Arts and the Humanities.
Additional funding is provided by David Teiger.
The accompanying education programs are supported in part by The Catalan Center at New York University, an affiliate of the Institut Ramon Llull.
Image: Illumined Pleasures. 1929. Oil and collage on composition board, 9 3/8 x 13 3/4" (23.8 x 34.7 cm). The Museum of Modern Art. The Sidney and Harriet Janis Collection. © 2008 Salvador Dalí, Gala-Salvador Dalí Foundation/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
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