Le Surréalisme, c’est moi!
22 Jun - 23 Oct 2011
© Philippe Halsman und Salvador Dali
Dali's Mustache, 1953, Privatsammlung Wien © Magnum Photos / Fundació Gala-Salvador Dalí, Figueres, 2011. Image Rights of Salvador Dalí reserved.
Dali's Mustache, 1953, Privatsammlung Wien © Magnum Photos / Fundació Gala-Salvador Dalí, Figueres, 2011. Image Rights of Salvador Dalí reserved.
LE SURRÉALISME, C’EST MOI!
Salvador Dalí & Louise Bourgeois, Glenn Brown, Markus Schinwald, Francesco Vezzoli
22 June - 23 October, 2011
It’s like being with royalty or circus people.
Andy Warhol on Salvador Dalí
Eccentric, madman, or genius? Salvador Dalí, with his oeuvre and provocative manner, did away with the boundaries between art and life, originality and commercialism as nearly no other twentieth-century artist did. He gave form to his vision of Surrealism as the aesthetic fusion of dream and reality in almost all media of art, but also in the way he presented himself. The exhibition at the Kunsthalle Wien reassesses Dalí’s controversially perceived production in the mirror of present-day art.
About seventy selected works by Salvador Dalí are confronted with the internationally established positions of Louise Bourgeois, Glenn Brown, Markus Schinwald and Francesco Vezzoli. Paintings, sculptures, drawings, films, and video works explore the visual worlds of the unconscious, the history of art and the tradition of painting, the phenomenon of renown, and the role of art and the artist in society and popular culture.
Co-starring: Philippe Halsman, Jean-Michel Othoniel, Eric Schaal, Andy Warhol
Curator: Gerald A. Matt
Salvador Dalí & Louise Bourgeois, Glenn Brown, Markus Schinwald, Francesco Vezzoli
22 June - 23 October, 2011
It’s like being with royalty or circus people.
Andy Warhol on Salvador Dalí
Eccentric, madman, or genius? Salvador Dalí, with his oeuvre and provocative manner, did away with the boundaries between art and life, originality and commercialism as nearly no other twentieth-century artist did. He gave form to his vision of Surrealism as the aesthetic fusion of dream and reality in almost all media of art, but also in the way he presented himself. The exhibition at the Kunsthalle Wien reassesses Dalí’s controversially perceived production in the mirror of present-day art.
About seventy selected works by Salvador Dalí are confronted with the internationally established positions of Louise Bourgeois, Glenn Brown, Markus Schinwald and Francesco Vezzoli. Paintings, sculptures, drawings, films, and video works explore the visual worlds of the unconscious, the history of art and the tradition of painting, the phenomenon of renown, and the role of art and the artist in society and popular culture.
Co-starring: Philippe Halsman, Jean-Michel Othoniel, Eric Schaal, Andy Warhol
Curator: Gerald A. Matt