2023-04-26 11:57:14
Guiyang city hosts the first exhibition with works by Salvador Dali in China after the pandemic restrictions. A universal geniuswhich opens this Thursday, includes 120 works including oils, watercolors, drawings and graphic work, all of them from the Gala-Salvador Dalí Foundation. The retrospective at the Guiyang International Fashion Center emphasizes three aspects that are of particular interest to Asian audiences, such as the classic references of Dalí, Velázquez and Michelangelo; the scenographies created by the painter from Figueres and the optical illusions.
The origin of the exhibition is prior to the pandemic, but not it was not until the measures to contain the covid in China were relaxed that the Foundation resumed the project, framed within the commemoration of the 50th anniversary of bilateral relations between Spain and the Asian country.
The artistic journey of the exhibition it begins at the time of Dalí’s formation with the presence of the landscape and a portrait of the father in a clearly impressionistic style, and it ends with the last works, with special emphasis on those that pay tribute to their classical references.
The surrealist period is represented with two works: No title Dream ballwhich refers to the surreal game of the exquisite corpse, and Eclipse and plant osmosis, a landscape with a dreamlike atmosphere, very characteristic of the thirties. In regard in the scenographer facet, projects for ballets are exhibited there Mad Tristan, The Labyrinth i romeo and Juliet and others that were used for the short film Destino. Finally, lDalí’s admiration for the classics is illustrated by paintings spanning the 1950s to the 1980s.
A representative of the Gala-Salvador Dalí Foundation will attend the opening of the exhibition tomorrow, which can be visited until August 31. The general director of the Dalí Foundation, Fèlix Roca; the manager, Joan Manuel Sevillano; the deputy director of Collections and Exhibitions, Carme Ruiz, and the commercial director, Leonora Aixas will be present at the opening event. The Spanish Ambassador to China, Rafael Dezcallar de Mazarredo, and the Spanish Minister for Culture in China, Gerardo Bugallo Ottone, will also attend.
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