Salvador Dali': the Dali' universe

Category: Art exhibitions

Time: From 22/05/2011 to 22/05/2013

The Diocesan Museum of St. Apollonia is pleased to host a unique exhibition, organized by the President of the Ambrosiana Foundation Beniamino Levi, one of the people who closely knew Dalì's works, and it is an opportunity which allows people to admire the less known aspects of the work of this artist.
The rooms of the museum will host large size sculptures, in which the surrealist game of connections and transformations comes back in all its magic, and the visual obsessions of the artist take shape in the space through the physical manipulation of the object.
The Dalì Universe is an opportunity to discover significant works of Dalì, such as The Snail and the Angel (1977/84), emblem of his unique meeting with Sigmund Freud which happened in London in 1938, or moreover, the carved obsessions such as The Persistence of Memory (1980) and the Spatial Elephant (1980), which present two fetishes used often in Dalì's poetry like the melting clock and the elephant with its legs multiplied upwards, but also the drawers in the human bodies like in Woman in Flames (1980).
Together with the great sculptures, The Dalì Universe shows to the public the little known side of Dalì illustrator: few people know that the Catalan genius worked also in the surrealist reading of many literary texts, both modern and classic ones, like those ones in the exhibition, Moses and Monotheism written by Freud or Carmen by Bizet.
Beniamino Levi, one of the greater experts of Salvador Dalì, has met personally the artist and his entourage since the 70's, meeting personally the artist in his residences in Paris, New York and in his country, Spain. Levi was enchanted by some of the first sculptures of Dalì, and to help the Master of the Surrealism to express again his art in sculptures, he commissioned him a series of bronze sculptures based on the more famous surrealist images of his incredible career.
Beniamino Levi has organized still today more than 80 exhibitions of great success which had obtained excellent feedbacks both from critics and from public, as more than 10 millions of visitors demonstrate.
The exhibition is open from 22 May 2011 to 18 March 2012, every day from 10.00 to 19.00, Closed on Wednesdays.
Ticket euro 10, reduced ticket euro 8.
The exhibition is patronized by The City of Venice and the Province of Venice.

Where: Museo Diocesano di Sant'Apollonia

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