The 'Dali Universe' Is Moving to New Location in London

Written by Marcel Goodman Tuesday, 23 February 2010 23:09

LONDON.- Dali Universe, one of the world’s foremost collections of Dali, is moving from County Hall on London’s South Bank to a new location in London. Over 500 Dali artworks which were exhibited to great acclaim over a ten year period, are moving to a new home which is better situated to please the museum going public. Dalí’s creative genius transforms into three-dimensional sculpture, bringing forth his most famous and fantastic surrealistic images.The passion to express himself sculpturally lasted throughout his lifetime and each sculpture beholds a dalinian philosophy.This superb collection brings to light the Catalan Master’s imagination, and exhibits an unknown aspect of Salvador Dalí’s work.

Illustrating the major themes of universal literature,mythology, history, and religion. Salvador Dalí was inspired to create a vast repertoire of personalities, allegories, and unique images. Dalí, the undisputed graphic master, undertook the enormous task of illustrating worldly and otherworldly themes in his own expressly surrealistic style. This facet of the artist’s genius is unparalleled by any other artist of the twentieth century.

In his autobiography La vie Secrète (The secrete life of Salvador Dalí), Dalí relates how, as a child, he made a model of the Venus de Milo because there was a picture of her on a pencil case: this was his first attempt at sculpture.

Dalí was already exploring working in three dimensions in the thirties. As a surrealist artist attempting, to convey the subconscious, dreams, feelings and also in the tradition of Marcel Duchamps, with his ready-made pieces (Fontaine 1917), he was interested in the art of the “object” using unusual materials.

Dalí used symbols so as to return more significant the message of his work. The contrast of a hard envelope and a soft interior is in the middle of his thought and his art. This external/interior contrast agrees with the psychological design according to which the individuals manufacture defences (hard), all around vulnerable “psyche” (flexible). Dalí knew very well the work of Freud and his disciples, even if his iconography does not derive absolutely from the psychoanalytical thought.

According to Dalí, art should fill all aspects of life. He also became interested in furniture after having met Jean Michel Franck, the famous interior decorator.<

Dalí’s description of his paranoiac-critical method defines his intention : "My whole ambition is to materialise the image of concrete irrationality with the most imperialistic fury of precision in order that the world of imagination and concrete irrationality may be as objectively evident, of the same consistency, of the same durability, of the same persuasive, cognoscitive and communicative thickness as that of exterior world of the phenomenal reality".

We are sorry for any inconvenience caused and we look forward to announcing a new space and a new exhibition which will have many of the old favourites as well as a new Dali collection of original drawings and paintings on loan from a secret Spanish admirer.

In the meantime, art lovers who wish to see one of Europe’s largest collections of Dali, can visit the Espace Dali exhibition in Montmartre, Paris: www.daliparis.com

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