More than 150 paintings and graphic works of Dali will be shown in the private fabergé Museum in Saint-Петербурге

the fabergé Museum
1 APR – 2 Jul 2017
St.-Петербург, Fontanka river embankment, 21

the Exhibition titled "Salvador Dali. Surrealist and classic" opens at the Museum of Faberge March 31, 2017. Now you can buy tickets online at dates from 1 April to 15 may on the Museum's website. Tickets for the later date of admission to the exhibition will go on sale April 10.

This will be the first such major exhibition of Salvador Dali in Saint-Петербурге: more than 150 paintings and graphic works from the collection of the Foundation "Gala — Salvador Dali" in Figueras (Catalonia, Spain), as well as from other museums and private collections. A creative artist can be traced from the surrealist works of the 1930s-х years that brought Dali fame, to his appeals in 1980-х to the themes of classical European art. Particular emphasis is placed on understanding the Salvador Dali heritage of the geniuses of the Italian Renaissance — Michelangelo and Cellini, as well as "divine Comedy" by Dante.

Salvador Dali — is one of the main artists that determined the development of art of the XX century, — were infinitely paradoxical, as does the twentieth century. Instantly recognizable and like no one else, he will be remembered not only in the history of the fine arts, but also in the history of design, fashion, theatre, cinema and literature. He managed to reflect in his work almost all of the great ideas and controversies of his time. Exhibition of the Faberge Museum gives the opportunity to touch the wonderful diversity of creativity Given, and feel the inner relationship of modernism and classics, concluded in his work.

the earliest of the works presented at the exhibition — surreal landscapes 1934-1937 years. Dali depicts desert landscapes of the Ampurdan and introduced to them the various shapes and elements. Their mysterious combination reminiscent of dreams, and perhaps reveal to us the contents of the unconscious of the artist, which he, through his "paranoid-критического method", releases from-под oppression of logic and reason, and brings to the painting.

The exhibition will feature one of the most interesting works of this period — "Landscape with mysterious elements" (1934) — recent and record-breaking expensive purchase of the Foundation "Gala — Salvador Dali" (the painting was bought from a private collector in 2011). In this original work of Dali quotes famous masterpiece "the Art of painting" of Vermeer. Person and work of the Dutch painter Dali admired throughout his life, put him first in my scandalous comparative table of the importance of artists and was even called "comprehensive surrealist". Paying tribute to his "mentor", Dali was often depicted by Vermeer in his paintings. Here and in the "Landscape with mysterious elements" he puts it in the foreground is riddled with amazing, unearthly light Importantly valley, and myself, still quite a child dressed in a sailor suit, accompanied by a nanny — where-то away. Fragments reality — sky, the cypress, the perfect importance village Portlligat — share the picture with ghosts, shadows and a fantastic ring forms, giving the wide field for interpretation.

These and other iconic surrealist images will continue to constantly appear in the works of Dali, but over time will start to change its value. In the film "In search of the fourth dimension", written much later, in 1979 (during the period of active experimentation of the artist with stereoscopic and holographic images that can help find the third and fourth dimension, and then according to the logic Given, allow you to achieve immortality), we can see again the symbols — white tunic, bread, cypress, soft watch, but in a different context. In an effort to unite space and time Gave combines your own imagery with quotations from the canonical works of the Renaissance — "School of Athens" by Raphael and "the transfer of the keys to St. Peter" Perugino. But the interest in classical European painting appears to have Given much earlier.

Immediately after his break with the Surrealists and later on in the early 1940-х years has Given declares a return to classicism and defends the values of the Renaissance. Broad intellectual and artistic interests of the artist do not fit in any of the sects of the time and do recall the humanism of the Renaissance. In 1945 he created a series of illustrations for the autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini, one of the most famous representatives of the Florentine Renaissance. Given freely interpreterpath text Cellini, providing maximum opportunity for their imagination. These are illustrations made with watercolors and ink on paper, will be shown at the exhibition in the Museum of Faberge.

Another major project was aimed at understanding the monuments of the classical European art and literature is his series of illustrations to the "divine Comedy" by Dante Alighieri, ordered him on the occasion of the 700-летия Dante by the State printing Institute Italy. Dalí began this work in 1950, in the coastal village of cadaqués and completed it two years later, after completing 102 illustrations in various techniques — watercolor, gouache, sanguine and ink. Between 1959 and 1963 100 of them were reproduced in photogravure technique. One hundred illustrations included in the final series and to this moment have become classical, can be seen at the exhibition.

the exhibition will feature paintings made by Salvador Dalí in the early 1980-х years and is dedicated to another great master of the Renaissance — Michelangelo. Working with scenes Michelangelo, Dali shows great respect for tradition and the past, but at the same time does not hide his ambition to exceed them through continuous innovation and immersion in modernity. Some of these works were first shown to the public only last year, at the thematic exhibition in Italy and Russia will come for the first time. These works shed light on the poorly understood last years of his life were Given. The death of his only and beloved wife and Muse gala (Elena Dyakonova) in June 1982 for a strong impact and makes to think more and moreafterlife. Gave experiencing a passionate interest in the subject of immortality, and wrote a number of works in which interpreterpath classical images of Michelangelo with the same peculiar unbridled imagination. In the famous work "the geological Echo. Pieta" (1982) Gave a embeds the shape of the virgin Mary and Christ in the rocky landscape of the Bay of cadaqués, as if trying to find the divine in the earthly. And in a kind of artistic Testament "explanation "of the Head of Giuliano de' Medici Michelangelo (1982), the artist unites his characteristic at different stages of the characters and techniques: a classical beauty profile, mysterious, surreal, filled with strange figures in landscape, uses the effect of optical illusion, as if summing up his creative aspirations. It also creates a series of works in which the images of the "Medici Tombs" that adorn the chapel of the dynasty the main patrons of the Renaissance, be a magnificent memorial for gala and himself and grant them immortality, at least in the dimension of world art.

the Exhibition is organized by the Cultural-историческим Fund "Link of times" and the Faberge Museum (Russia) in partnership with the Foundation "Gala — Salvador Dali" (Catalonia, Spain). Coordinator of the exhibition is the company "Mostra Mondo" (Italy). Exhibition curators: Mons ager, Director of the Museums of the Dali Foundation "Gala — Salvador Dali" Thomas Clement Salomon, a researcher of the company "Mondo Mostre".

Sources: fabergemuseum.ru, artinvestment.ru