{"id":9394,"date":"2009-06-11T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-06-10T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/webdali.latempesta.eu\/fundacio-dali\/noticia\/dali-viatja-a-australia\/"},"modified":"2025-06-26T10:20:17","modified_gmt":"2025-06-26T08:20:17","slug":"dali-visits-australia","status":"publish","type":"noticia","link":"https:\/\/webdali.latempesta.eu\/en\/dali-foundation\/news\/dali-visits-australia\/","title":{"rendered":"Dal\u00ed visits Australia"},"content":{"rendered":"

The National Gallery of Victoria (NGV) in Melbourne is holding the exhibition Salvador Dal\u00ed: Liquid Desire<\/em>, which can be seen from 13 June to 4 October 2009. The official ceremonies will be held on Thursday, 11 June, with a press conference in the morning presided over by the Premier of the State of Victoria, John Brumby, followed in the afternoon by the official inauguration of the exhibition by the Minister of Culture of Victoria, Lynne Kosky. Both events will be attended by the Chairman of the Gala-Salvador Dal\u00ed Foundation, Ramon Boixad\u00f3s, the Director of the Centre for Dalinian Studies, Montse Aguer, and the Managing Director, Joan Manuel Sevillano.<\/p>\n

Explanation and context<\/strong>
\nThis is the most comprehensive retrospective of Salvador Dal\u00ed ever to have been held in Australia, and it will be organised by the National Gallery of Victoria within the framework of the latest edition of Melbourne Winter Masterpieces, a government initiative promoted by the State of Victoria.<\/p>\n

The first time that a Dal\u00ed could be seen in Australia was in 1939, when the work Memory of the Child-Woman was exhibited. That work was received amidst much controversy due to its alleged Freudian content. It formed part of an exhibition entitled Herald Exhibition of French and British Contemporary Art, and visited the cities of Adelaide and Melbourne.<\/p>\n

The curators of that exhibition wished to show Australia what had been happening in Europe since Impressionism, though of the 217 works on view only Dal\u00ed\u2019s drew outraged criticism due to the supposed \u2018obscenity\u2019 of the piece. That was why the Director of the NGV in that period did not want to exhibit it at his museum. The exhibition devoted to Surrealism remained in Australia during the Second World War, and in 1943 was shown for a second time to the public of Melbourne, and that time at the NGV, by then under new management. The work now belongs to the Salvador Dal\u00ed Museum of Florida, and can be seen once again in the Australian city where it aroused such great expectation.<\/p>\n

The National Gallery of Victoria<\/strong>
\nThis is the most important cultural institution of the State of Victoria. It opened its doors in 1861, and in 1990 divided its collection into two sites. On the one hand there is the NGV Australia in the Ian Potter Centre building, which houses the most extensive collection of Aborigine art and has played a prominent role in the salvaging and study of that major legacy of humanity; and on the other hand there is the NGV International in St. Kilda Road, in a refurbished building that houses international art in facilities that are first-rate in terms both of infrastructures and of technological equipment.<\/p>\n

Content of the exhibition<\/strong>
\nSalvador Dal\u00ed: Liquid Desire<\/em> brings together over 200 works by Salvador Dal\u00ed in all the disciplines, including painting, drawing, watercolours, engravings, sculptures, fashion, jewellery, cinema and photography. The works come from two of the world\u2019s largest Salvador Dal\u00ed collections: the Gala-Salvador Dal\u00ed Foundation (Figueres) and the Salvador Dal\u00ed Museum of Sant Petersbug (Florida).<\/p>\n

The Director of the NGV, Gerard Vaughan, declares that \u201cDal\u00ed\u2019s life spanned almost a century of dramatic social and artistic changes. Salvador Dal\u00ed: Liquid Desire traces the extraordinary innovation Dal\u00ed brought to his art at every stage of his remarkable career, from his earliest years as an exceptionally talented 14-year-old to the final majestic paintings created when the artist was in his seventies. The exhibition is testament to the NGV\u2019s first class reputation for staging and managing exhibitions of international significance\u201d. And he adds: \u201cit has been an absolute pleasure to collaborate with our colleagues from Figueres and Florida to bring this fantastic exhibition to Australia\u201d.<\/p>\n

Salvador Dal\u00ed: Liquid Desire<\/em> explores Dal\u00ed\u2019s excellence through chronologically ordered sections, the first of which shows visitors a skilful young Impressionist painter through a work that is considered his first masterpiece: Self-Portrait with Raphaelesque Neck<\/em>. The exhibition then looks at his experimentation with cubism, abstract art, neoclassicism and the new objectivism Dal\u00ed engaged in during his student period, as well as his leading role within the Surrealist movement in Paris in the 1930s.<\/p>\n

Ted Gott, Senior Curator of International Art of the NGV, asserts that Dal\u00ed\u2019s artistic imagination drew nourishment constantly from the abrupt and romantic landscapes of his native Catalonia. \u201cThese stunning landscapes, infused with his unique imagination, informed the classic Surrealist paintings with which Dal\u00ed astonished the art world in the early 1930s and for which he is so well known for today.\u201d A good selection of works from the French Surrealist period is included in the exhibition.<\/p>\n

Salvador Dal\u00ed: Liquid Desire<\/em> also includes Dal\u00ed\u2019s most significant work belonging to an Australian collection, Lobster Telephone<\/em>, which is at the National Gallery of Australia and is one of the most famous sculptures of the 20th century.<\/p>\n

Visitors will also undertake an overview of Dal\u00ed\u2019s contribution to 20th-century cinema, starting with his collaboration with Luis Bu\u00f1uel, then moving on to his involvement with Alfred Hitchcock and other Hollywood directors during the 1940s.<\/p>\n

The curators have described Dal\u00ed as \u201cone of the great innovators of twentieth-century art history, whose extraordinary artistic contribution goes beyond Surrealism. He was a true genius in all aspects, a giant on the world scenario, one whose art influenced the generations that came after him, and not only his own generation. There was nothing he could not do\u201d.<\/p>\n

Acknowledgements<\/strong>
\nSalvador Dal\u00ed: Liquid Desire<\/em> is organised by the National Gallery of Victoria (Melbourne), together with the Gala\u2013Salvador Dal\u00ed Foundation (Figueres) and the Salvador Dal\u00ed Museum of Sant Petersburg (Florida). It is curated by Montse Aguer, Director of the Centre for Dalinian Studies of the Gala-Salvador Dal\u00ed Foundation, Joan Kropf, Curator of the Salvador Dal\u00ed Museum (Florida), and Ted Gott, Senior Curator of the NGV.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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