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8/1/2004

Dali' Centennial

Salvador Dali' Museum, St. Petersburg

Celebrating 100 Years of Dali'

ST. PETERSBURG, FL (December, 2003) The Salvador Dalí Museum will honor the 100th Anniversary of the birth of Dalí with a grand exhibition titled: Dalí Centennial: An American Collection, opening on January 9 and running through September 26, 2004. The exhibition will showcase the depth and breadth of the Museum's phenomenal collection and archives in a manner never displayed before and demonstrate the importance of the artist and the historical significance of the collection to the world of art, culture and ideas.

The underlying organization of the exhibition will be chronological, illustrating the various periods in the evolution of Dalí's artistic vision. Within the exhibition, some sections will be organized thematically to demonstrate the development of persistent themes and symbolism in Dalí's art. Throughout the exhibition, the visitor will be guided by interpretive text/graphics panels adding discourse and perspective to the exhibition experience.

Two other museums are loaning works to the exhibition. The Dalí Foundation in Spain is sending two stereoscopic works: Dalí Lifting the skin of the Mediterranean Sea in order to show Gala the Birth of Venus, 1978 and The Foot of Gala, 1974. The Philadelphia Museum of Art is loaning Soft Construction with Boiled Beans: Premonition of Civil War, one of Dalí's most celebrated works. Philadelphia will host in January 2005 the Dalí retrospective exhibition, which opens this September at the Palazzo Grassi in Venice.

In addition to the more frequently exhibited oil paintings and prints, the Dali Museum exhibition will include many rare and less frequently seen objects such as Dalí's sculptures, watercolors, jewelry, flatware, and commercial illustrations.

The exhibition also will feature selected works from the Museum's collection, archive and library, many of which never have been exhibited. These will include recently acquired preparatory drawings for paintings in the collection; original manuscripts acquired from the estate of André Breton; significant historical documents including birth certificates, school grades and diplomas; handwritten manuscript pages and the published Dalí contributions to the magazine Studium; samples of reading material from Dalí's library; rare illustrated Surrealist catalogs for which Dalí produced superb etchings; historic brochures and catalogs that document Dalí's participation in numerous exhibitions.

Dalí Centennial: An American Collection is sponsored by Progress Energy. Additional funding is provided from the Embassy of Spain.

The Salvador Dalí Museum, which holds the pre-eminent American collection of this artist's work,
is located at 1000 Third Street South, St. Petersburg Florida, and is open daily from
9:30 to 5:30, Thursdays from 9:30 to 8:00, and Sundays from 12:00 to 5:30.

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