calendario eventi  :: 

X

20/11/2012

Salvador Dali'

Centre Pompidou, Paris

The Centre Pompidou pays tribute to one of the most complex and prolific artists of the 20th century: Salvador Dali. More than thirty years after it was hosted by the institution, the 1979 retrospective devoted to his work remains the most successful exhibition in the history of the Centre Pompidou.

Dali is one of the undisputed masters in the history of modern art and one of its most popular figures at the same time. A highly controversial artist, his theatricality and greed (his nickname was “Avida Dollars”) as well as his provocative political stances were often derided. This new exhibition does not shy away from the sheer impact of his work to which his own larger- than-life persona, in turns genial and grotesque, is so intricately woven.

Over two hundred works (paintings, sculptures, drawings, etc.) are presented in a succession of chronological thematic themed sections:

• the dialogue between the artist’s eye and brain and those of the viewer;

• the pioneer of performance art, creating ephemeral works of art and manipulating the media as someone who considered art as a global means of communication;

• Questioning the figure (persona) of the artist in the face of tradition.

Dali never stops luring the viewer between two infinities, hovering between the infinitely small and the infinitely large, polarizing contractions and expansions. He switches from meticulous Flemish precision ( in a reference to Vermeer) to the showy baroque of tradition that he used in his museum-theatre in Figueras. This oscillation is based on a general questioning of identity: his dead brother, also named Salvador, the confusion of dreams and reality, hermaphrodism, are all evidences of his duplicated world.

This in-between also points to a precise moment in history and to a specific generation, that of inter-war years, of the rise of totalitarian regimes, ideological confrontations, migrations, and intertwined art scenes (Paris / Barcelona / New York). Among the masterpieces presented in Paris are some of Dali’s most revered icons: The Persistence of Memory (Melting watches), 1931, Le Grand Masturbateur, 1929, Le Spectre du Sex appeal, 1934 as well as L’Énigme sans fin, 1938. The exhibition will also offer the opportunity to discover more than a hundred works on paper, objects, projects for stage and screen, films, photographs and excerpts from television programmes that reflect the intense activity of the artist turned “showman”.

The retrospective maps out the whole body of work and casts light on Dali’s character through a remarkable selection of major works, thanks to a very close collaboration with the Museo Nacional Reina Sofia in Madrid, which will host the exhibition from 23 April to 2 September 2013, and a joint contribution from the Fundació Dali, Figueras and the Salvador Dali Museum, St Petersburg, Florida. The exhibition also shows the countless ephemeral works created by Dali in front of an audience or a camera, which made him a precursor of performance art and happenings.

Head Curator: Jean-Hubert Martin

Curators: Montse Aguer, Jean-Michel Bouhours, Thierry Dufrêne

Jean-Hubert Martin, former director of the Musée national d’art moderne, who made history with major exhibitions such as “Magiciens de la Terre” in 1989, returns to the Centre Pompidou for this exhibition-event.

Montse Aguer, director of the Centre d’Estudis Dalinians at the Fundació Gala-Salvador Dali.

Jean-Michel Bouhours, , curator at the Musée national d’art moderne / Centre de création industrielle. Specialist in experimental film, former director of the Nouveau Musée de Monaco.

Thierry Dufrêne, professor of contemporary art history at the University of Paris Ouest Nanterre, deputy managing director of INHA The set, designed by Laurence Le Bris and Oscar Tusquets, architect and Dali’s assistant, will showcase this larger than life detail and dramatic pieces..

Publications produced by Éditions du Centre Pompidou: catalogue, monograph and album together with a special issue of Les Cahiers du Musée.

An international symposium attended by leading figures from the art world, will be held at the Centre Pompidou on 23 and 24 January 2013, organized by the Centre Pompidou’s cultural development department in partnership with the Ramon Llull Institute.

The Dali exhibition will be presented at the Museo Nacional Reina Sofía in Madrid from 23 April to 2 September 2013

Exhibition realized by the Centre Pompidou with Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid

in partnership with the Fundació Gala Salvador Dalí, Figueres and the Salvador Dalí Museum, Saint Petersburg, Floride

Press office: Directrice
Françoise Pams
téléphone 00 33 (0)1 44 78 12 87
francoise.pams@centrepompidou.fr


Centre Pompidou
75191 Paris cedex 04
Opening: 11am – 9pm every day, ex. Tuesdays and 1 May
Admission: €11 - €13, depending on time concessions €9 - €10
ticket valid the same day for the Musée national d’art moderne and all exhibitions Free for under-18s and members of the Centre Pompidou

stampa

permanent link