LACMA Explores Dali's Surrealism From Paintings to Cinema

LACMA Explores Dali's Surrealism From Paintings to Cinema

Dali: Painting & Film October 14, 2007-January 6, 2008

Press Preview: Wednesday, October 10, 10 am-noon

LOS ANGELES, Oct. 3 /PRNewswire/ -- The Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) presents Dali: Painting & Film, the first exhibition to focus on the profound relationship between the paintings and films of famed surrealist Salvador Dali (1904-1989). On view from October 14, 2007 through January 6, 2008 in the city that popularized the medium, the exhibition argues that Dali's personal engagement with cinema -- as a fan, a screenwriter, a filmmaker, and an art director -- was fundamental to his understanding of modernism and deeply affected the different stages of his career. Dali is widely regarded as one of the most outrageous artists of the twentieth century and his paintings are among the most recognizable works of art made in the last hundred years. And, as the exhibition reveals, his collaborations with Luis Bunuel, Alfred Hitchcock, and Walt Disney also created some of the most memorable and influential scenes in avant-garde and mainstream cinema.

Dali's work has been the subject of a number of major retrospectives in the past two decades. Dali: Painting & Film looks beyond this historical approach to explore his long and changing relationship with the cultural phenomenon of cinema and features approximately one hundred works, including a significant number of paintings. These will be seen alongside Dali's major film projects such as Un Chien andalou, L'Age d'or (1929-30), Spellbound (1945), and Destino (1946), as well as examples of the later films he created himself, Chaos and Creation (1960) -- shot on video -- and Impressions of Upper Mongolia (1976). Related photographs, drawings, paintings, and manuscripts will also be on view.

The exhibition, organized in collaboration with the Gala-Salvador Dali Foundation in Figueres, Spain (http://www.salvador-dali.org/), brings together a team of scholars who have contributed to the comprehensive catalogue: Dawn Ades (curator, Salvador Dali: Centenary Exhibition), Montse Aguer (Director, Centre d'Estudis Dalinians, Gala-Salvador Dali Foundation), Felix Fanes (curator, Dali: Cultura de Masas) and Tate curator Matthew Gale (author of Dada and Surrealism). The LACMA showing of this exhibition is co-organized by Ilene Susan Fort, the Gail and John Liebes Curator of American Art, and Sara Cochran, Assistant Curator of Modern Art.

General Information: LACMA is located at 5905 Wilshire Boulevard, Los Angeles CA, 90036.

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Web site: http://www.salvador-dali.org/

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