The Faberge Museum hosts the exhibition “Salvador Dali. Surrealist and Classic”, for the first time in St. Petersburg such a large-scale exposition, including more than 150 paintings and graphic works Dali.
One of the central works of the upcoming exhibition is Landscape with Enigmatic Elements, which the Gala-Salvador Dali Foundation purchased in 2011 for 7.8 million euros from a private collector who wished to remain anonymous.
The exhibition allows you to see creative way artist, starting with the surrealist works of the 1930s that made him famous and ending with his appeals to the subjects of the classical European art in the 1980s. Particular emphasis is placed on Salvador Dali's understanding of the heritage of geniuses Italian Renaissance- Michelangelo and Cellini, as well as " Divine Comedy» Dante.
Salvador Dali, one of the main artists who determined the development of the art of the 20th century, was infinitely paradoxical, like the 20th century itself. Instantly recognizable and unlike anyone else, he forever went down not only in history visual arts but also in the history of design, fashion, theatre, cinema and literature. He managed to reflect in his work almost all the great ideas and contradictions of his time. The exhibition at the Faberge Museum provides an opportunity to touch the wonderful diversity of Dali's work, and to feel the inner relationship of modernism and classics, contained in his works.
Most early works presented at the exhibition - surreal landscapes of 1934-1937. Dali depicts the desert landscapes of Ampurdana and introduces various figures and elements into them. Their mysterious combinations are reminiscent of dreams, and perhaps reveal to us the content of the unconscious artist, which he, through his "paranoid-critical method", releases from the yoke of logic and reason and transfers to painting.
The exhibition will feature one of the most interesting works from this period, Landscape with Enigmatic Elements (1934), a recent and record-breaking acquisition by the Salvador Dalí Gala Foundation, bought from a private collector in 2011. In this work, Dali originally quotes famous masterpiece The Art of Painting by Vermeer. Dali admired the personality and work of the Dutch painter throughout his life, put him in first place in his scandalous comparative table the importance of artists and even called "comprehensive surrealist". Paying tribute to his "mentor", Dali often depicted Vermeer in his paintings.
So in the "Landscape with mysterious elements" he places him in the foreground of the Ampurdan Valley, permeated with amazing, unearthly light, and himself, still a child, dressed in a sailor's costume, accompanied by a nanny - somewhere far away. Fragments of reality - the sky, cypresses, the ideal Ampurdan village of Portlligat - side by side in the picture with ghosts, shadows and fantastic nameless forms, giving the widest field for interpretation.
These and other iconic surrealistic images will continue to appear constantly in Dali's work, but over time they will begin to change their meaning. In "In Search of fourth dimension”, written much later, in 1979, during the period of the artist’s active experiments with stereoscopic and holographic images, which can help to find the third and fourth dimensions, which means, according to Dali’s logic, allow us to gain immortality, we again see his symbolism - white tunics, bread , cypresses, soft watch but in a completely different context. In an attempt to unite space and time, Dali combines his own imagery with quotations from the canonical works of the Renaissance - " the School of Athens» Raphael and «Transmission of the keys to the Apostle Peter» by Perugino. However, the interest in the classical European painting Dali appears much earlier.
Immediately after his break with the surrealists and further, in the early 1940s, Dali proclaims a return to classicism and defends the values of the Renaissance. The broad intellectual and creative interests of the artist do not fit into any of the current trends of that time, and really remind of the humanism of the Renaissance. In 1945 he creates a series of illustrations for the autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini, one of the most well-known representatives Florentine Renaissance. Dali freely interprets Cellini's text, providing maximum opportunities for his imagination. These illustrations, done in watercolor and ink on paper, will be shown at an exhibition at the Faberge Museum.
Another large-scale project of Dali, aimed at comprehending the monuments of classical European art and literature, is his series of illustrations for the Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri, ordered to him on the occasion of the 700th anniversary of Dante by the State Polygraphic Institute of Italy. Dalí began this work in 1950 in the coastal village of Cadaques and completed it two years later with 102 illustrations in various techniques using watercolor, gouache, sanguine and ink. Between 1959 and 1963, 100 of them were reproduced using the photogravure technique. All 100 illustrations included in the final series, which have now become textbooks, can be seen at the exhibition.
Also on display will be paintings, made by Salvador Dali in the early 1980s and dedicated to another great master of the Renaissance - Michelangelo Buonarotti. Working with the subjects of Michelangelo, Dali shows great respect for tradition and the past, but at the same time does not hide his desire to surpass them through constant innovation and immersion in modernity.
Several of these works were shown to the public for the first time only last year at a thematic exhibition in Italy, and they will come to Russia for the first time. These works lift the veil over the little-studied recent years Dali's life. The death of his only and dearly beloved wife and muse Gala (Elena Dyakonova) in June 1982 becomes a strong blow for him and makes him think more and more about the other world. Dali has a passionate interest in the topic of immortality and writes a number of works in which he interprets classic images Michelangelo with all the same irrepressible fantasy peculiar to him.
IN famous work"Geological Echo. Pieta (1982) Dali embeds the figures of the Virgin Mary and Christ in the rocky landscape of the Gulf of Cadaqués, as if trying to find the divine in the earthly. And in a kind of artistic testament "Based on Michelangelo's "Head of Giuliano Medici"" (1982), the artist combines all the features characteristic of him different stages symbols and techniques - the beauty of the classical profile, a mysterious, surreal landscape filled with strange figures, uses the effect optical illusion, as if summing up their creative pursuits.
He also creates a whole series of works in which the images of the Medici Tomb, decorating the chapel of the dynasty of the main patrons of the Renaissance, become a majestic memorial for Gala and himself and grant them immortality, at least in the dimension of world art.
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Exhibition “Salvador Dali. Surrealist and classic. Recommended for visitors over 18 years of age.
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According to the organizers of the exhibition, "Salvador Dali. Surrealist and classic" will be the largest exhibition of works Spanish artist In Petersburg. It will exhibit 150 paintings and graphic works Dali provided by the Foundation "Gala - Salvador Dali" and other museum and private collections.
Landscape bought by the Gala-Salvador Dali Foundation for a record price
Among the surrealistic landscapes of 1934-1937 presented at the exhibition, the "Landscape with mysterious elements", painted by the artist in 1934. In 2011 the fund "Gala - Salvador Dali" bought it from an anonymous collector for a record amount of $ 11.14 million. The painting is quoted in this work "Allegory of Painting" Jan Vermeer, whom Dali called the "comprehensive surrealist" and whose work he admired all his life. IN "Landscape with mysterious elements" great Spaniard He placed the drawing Vermeer in the foreground, and himself, depicted as a little boy in a sailor's costume and accompanied by a nanny, in the second.
Salvador Dali. "Landscape with mysterious elements"
Press materials of the Faberge Museum
Illustrations for the autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini
“Surrealism is me!” Salvador Dali said about his place in this art direction. However, in 1936 he departed from it, starting to defend the values of the Renaissance. In 1945, Dali, for example, created a series of illustrations for the autobiography of the Florentine sculptor and painter Benvenuto Cellini, considered one of the most prominent representatives the Renaissance. These works, done in ink and watercolor, are also presented at the St. Petersburg exhibition.
Illustrations by Salvador Dali for the autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini
Press materials of the Faberge Museum
Illustrations for The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri
What does Dante's hell look like in the view of Salvador Dali? This question is also answered Faberge Museum. In 1950 State Polygraphic Institute of Italy ordered the artist a series of illustrations for "Divine Comedy" Dante Alighieri, dedicated to the 700th anniversary of the poet. The result of Dali's work was 102 drawings made in various techniques using watercolor, gouache and ink. Subsequently, the order was canceled: the Italian public expressed dissatisfaction with the fact that the work of the great Italian poet was entrusted to illustrate the Spaniard. However, Salvador Dali did not give up and turned to the French publisher Joseph Fauré for help, who, in turn, acted as an intermediary between the artist and the publishing house. Les Heures Claires who eventually published a book with these illustrations. 100 drawings from this series will be presented at the exhibition.
Illustrations by Salvador Dali for the "Divine Comedy" by Dante Alighieri
Press materials of the Faberge Museum
Dedications to Michelangelo
After the death of his wife and muse Gala in 1982, Salvador Dali began to think more often about the afterlife and immortality and wrote a number of works interpreting the classical images of another Renaissance master, Michelangelo Buonarotti. Inspired by the iconic works of Michelangelo, Dali created his own based on them, such as "Geological Echo. Pieta" And "Heads of Giuliano Medici" Michelangelo. Some of the works of this period will be presented in Russia for the first time.
Salvador Dali. "Untitled", 1982. Based on the sculpture "Giuliano Medici" by Michelangelo
Press materials of the Faberge Museum
Exhibition “Salvador Dali. Surrealist and Classic” at the Faberge Museum will be open from April 1 to July 2, 2017.
Alena Doletskaya
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Moscow Museum contemporary art together with the "Gala-Salvador Dali, Figueres" Foundation present the exhibition "Salvador Dali and Media". For the first time in Russia, the works of one of the most famous provocateurs in the art of the twentieth century will be presented through the prism of the media. The partner of the exhibition was the Spanish jewelry house Carrera y Carrera, which will present a special project in one of the halls of Gogolevsky 10 - a fantasy on the theme of how the result of joint work for the glossy magazines Carrera y Carrera and Dali would look now.
Traditionally, the works of Salvador Dali in the media are divided into periods directly related to the geopolitical situation in the world. However, the MMOMA exhibition will not be organized chronologically. The viewer himself chooses the sequence of inspection of the exposition. Conceptually, the exhibition will be divided into two blocks, inextricably linked with each other. First, Dali at work: Covers and articles for Vogue, GQ, TV Guide, Newsweek, Town&Country, This Week magazine and many more publications showcase Dali as an illustrator and art director, writer and editor. Each new role artist will be told in the halls of MMOMA. The second is the world of images that have become an integral part of the era of the “fourth power”, in which the artist worked. A giant egg, female legs in Bryan stockings, lips and, of course, the famous ornate mustache will create a unique space for Dali's crazy world. But surrealism will be interrupted by a rational hall, without which it is impossible to imagine the work of a genius with media. Figures in the world of the artist accompanied him from the first "trials": whether it was the circulation of the publication for which he wrote, the number of covers or the size of the fee for one of the largest publishing houses.
Dali's creativity in the media mass media inextricably linked with the artistic images of the author. His illustrative activity was not an accidental or temporary hobby, it was one of the foundations not only of his work, but of the entire Daliniana, which continues today. Moment creative development artist and the first stage of his career fell on the post-crisis period, the first five-year plan and the "New Deal" by Franklin Delano Roosevelt. The political situation in the world determined the time of “smart” magazines (L’Amic de les arts (“Friend of the Arts”), Gaseta de les Arts (“Arts Newspaper”), “Minotaur”), in which Dali acted as an active theorist. In the second half of the thirties, the consumer society flourished, gloss came with it, and large-circulation newspapers appeared at the same time. In search of a sensation, both of them turned to the artist for help, he, in turn, actively exploited his image, easily transforming into a media employee, whether it be an illustrator or editor, and sometimes even into the publisher himself. Dali repeated the same eccentric themes, this becomes especially obvious in 1934 on the pages of the 60 million weekly American Weekly of press king William Hirst. The uniqueness of Dali's work and the media lay in his amazing ability to communicate with readers at the level of understandable symbols, which, in turn, made any Dali campaign successful, whether it was an advertisement for Isotta or Chen Yu lipstick. In 1939, when the theory of the “surrealistic object” had already taken over the world, Salvador Dali signed a contract with Conde Nast, at the same time, female bouquet heads would finally enter the set. artistic images author. A series of famous Bryans silk stockings was published a year later. Dozens female legs they point to the sky, then to the ground, somewhere they turn into the wings of pegasi, double in symmetrical arches, ambiguously peek out from behind the chairs. In the early years of World War II, Dali designed a spread for 42 issues of Click magazine on the themes of dreams, fashion in the style of surrealism.
Dali the artist became a living legend after only ten years: the early years post-war decade realized the idea of general mobilization, the market lost its former laws, becoming a free trade zone. It was at this time that Dali began to pay special attention to the media as the most loyal space for experiments. This was confirmed by the first issue of Dali News magazine. Monarch of the Dalies, an imitation of the famous Daily News in a four-page, eight-column tabloid format with huge headlines, came out in 1945 to coincide with the opening of the Dali exhibition at the Binou Gallery in New York.
Dali's close and long collaboration with magazines and newspapers was only partly highlighted in the landmark 2004 exhibition Dali. Mass culture”, held in Madrid National Museum of Contemporary Art named after Reina Sofia as part of the celebration of the centenary of the birth of the great Spanish artist. This year the world is celebrating the 110th anniversary of the birth of the great artist.
SALVADOR DALI. SURREALIST AND CLASSIC
Faberge Museum in St. Petersburg
On March 31, 2017, the Faberge Museum will host the opening of the exhibition “Salvador Dali. Surrealist and classic. For the first time in St. Petersburg, such a large-scale exposition will be shown, including more than 150 paintings and graphic works by Dali, provided by the Gala - Salvador Dali Foundation in Figueres (Catalonia, Spain), as well as other museum and private collections. The exhibition allows you to trace the artist's creative path, from the surrealist works of the 1930s that made him famous to his appeals to the subjects of classical European art in the 1980s. Particular emphasis is placed on Salvador Dali's comprehension of the heritage of the geniuses of the Italian Renaissance - Michelangelo and Cellini, as well as Dante's "Divine Comedy".
Salvador Dali, one of the main artists who determined the development of art of the 20th century, was infinitely paradoxical, like the 20th century itself. Instantly recognizable and unlike anyone else, he forever entered not only the history of fine art, but also the history of design, fashion, theater, cinema and literature. He managed to reflect in his work almost all the great ideas and contradictions of his time. The exhibition at the Faberge Museum provides an opportunity to touch the wonderful diversity of Dali's work, and to feel the inner relationship of modernism and classics, contained in his works.
The earliest works presented at the exhibition are surreal landscapes from 1934-1937. Dali depicts the desert landscapes of Ampurdana and introduces various figures and elements into them. Their mysterious combinations are reminiscent of dreams, and perhaps reveal to us the content of the unconscious artist, which he, through his "paranoid-critical method", releases from the yoke of logic and reason and transfers to painting.
The exhibition will feature one of the most interesting works of this period - "Landscape with mysterious elements" (1934) - a recent and record-breaking acquisition of the Gala-Salvador Dali Foundation, it was bought from a private collector in 2011. In this work, Dali originally quotes the famous masterpiece "The Art of Painting" by Vermeer. Dali admired the personality and work of the Dutch painter throughout his life, put him in first place in his scandalous comparative table of the importance of artists and even called him a "comprehensive surrealist." Paying tribute to his "mentor", Dali often depicted Vermeer in his paintings. So in the "Landscape with mysterious elements" he places him in the foreground of the Ampurdan Valley, permeated with amazing, unearthly light, and himself, still a child, dressed in a sailor's costume, accompanied by a nanny - somewhere far away. Fragments of reality - the sky, cypress trees, the ideal Ampurdan village of Portlligat - side by side in the picture with ghosts, shadows and fantastic nameless forms, giving the widest field for interpretation.
These and other iconic surrealistic images will continue to appear constantly in Dali's work, but over time they will begin to change their meaning. In the painting “In Search of the Fourth Dimension”, painted much later, in 1979, during the period of the artist’s active experiments with stereoscopic and holographic images, which can help find the third and fourth dimensions, and therefore, according to Dali’s logic, allow us to gain immortality, we again see its symbolism - white tunics, bread, cypresses, soft watches, but in a completely different context. In an attempt to unite space and time, Dali combines his own imagery with quotations from the canonical works of the Renaissance - Raphael's The School of Athens and Perugino's Handing over the Keys to the Apostle Peter. However, in itself, interest in classical European painting appears in Dali much earlier.
Immediately after his break with the surrealists and further, in the early 1940s, Dali proclaims a return to classicism and defends the values of the Renaissance. The broad intellectual and creative interests of the artist do not fit into any of the current trends of that time, and really remind of the humanism of the Renaissance. In 1945, he creates a series of illustrations for the autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini, one of the most famous representatives of the Florentine Renaissance. Dali freely interprets Cellini's text, providing maximum opportunities for his imagination. These illustrations, done in watercolor and ink on paper, will be shown at an exhibition at the Faberge Museum.
Another large-scale project of Dali, aimed at comprehending the monuments of classical European art and literature, is his series of illustrations for the Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri, ordered to him on the occasion of the 700th anniversary of Dante by the State Polygraphic Institute of Italy. Dali began this work in 1950 in the coastal village of Cadaqués and completed it two years later with 102 illustrations in various techniques, using watercolor, gouache, sanguine and ink. Between 1959 and 1963, 100 of them were reproduced using the photogravure technique. All 100 illustrations included in the final series, which have now become textbooks, can be seen at the exhibition.
The exhibition will also feature paintings made by Salvador Dali in the early 1980s and dedicated to another great master of the Renaissance - Michelangelo Buonarotti. Working with the subjects of Michelangelo, Dali shows great respect for tradition and the past, but at the same time does not hide his desire to surpass them through constant innovation and immersion in modernity. Several of these works were shown to the public for the first time only last year at a thematic exhibition in Italy, and they will come to Russia for the first time. These works lift the veil over the little-studied last years of Dali's life. The death of his only and dearly beloved wife and muse Gala (Elena Dyakonova) in June 1982 becomes a strong blow for him and makes him think more and more about the other world. Dali has a passionate interest in the theme of immortality and writes a number of works in which he interprets the classical images of Michelangelo with the same irrepressible fantasy characteristic of him. In the famous work “Geological Echo. Pieta (1982) Dali embeds the figures of the Virgin Mary and Christ in the rocky landscape of the Gulf of Cadaqués, as if trying to find the divine in the earthly. And in a kind of artistic testament "Based on Michelangelo's "Head of Giuliano Medici"" (1982), the artist combines all the symbols and techniques characteristic of him at different stages - the beauty of the classical profile, a mysterious, surreal landscape filled with strange figures, uses the effect of optical illusion, as if summing up your creative endeavors. He also creates a whole series of works in which the images of the Medici Tomb, decorating the chapel of the dynasty of the main patrons of the Renaissance, become a majestic memorial for Gala and himself and grant them immortality, at least in the dimension of world art.
The exhibition is organized by the Link of Times Cultural and Historical Foundation and the Faberge Museum (Russia) in partnership with the Gala Foundation --- El Salvador Dali (Catalonia, Spain). The coordinator of the exhibition is Mondo Mostre (Italy). Exhibition curators: Monse Ager, director of the Dali Museums of the Gala - Salvador Dali Foundation and Thomas Clement Salomon, researcher at Mondo Mostre.
The exhibition will run from April 1 to July 2, 2017. During the exhibition, the Faberge Museum is open daily, seven days a week, from 10-00 to 20-45.
Tickets for the exhibition can be purchased in advance attickets. fsv. en Tickets are currently on sale for the period from 01.04 to 15.05. Tickets for a later visit to the exhibition will go on sale on 10.04.Ticket price - 450 rubles, preferential - 200 rubles.
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