Dalí

In 2021, the Atelier des Lumières will be illuminated by Salvador Dalí’s famous psychedelic works. The new immersive exhibition entitled ‘Dali: the endless enigma’ will encompass more than sixty years in the career of the Catalan master, who developed and invented various artistic styles.

Explore a thematic itinerary comprising surrealistic and metaphysical landscapes and will be immersed in the artist’s amazing and highly imaginative works. Exhibited around the world (the Gala-Salvador Dalí Foundation at Figueres, the Dalí Museum in Florida, the Reina Sofía Museum in Madrid, and MoMA in New York) these works, which can be interpreted on so many levels, will be brought together in the Atelier. Displayed and brought to life on the floors and ten-metre-high walls, you will be able to observe every detail of the brushstrokes, lines, and material effects.

Paintings, drawings, photographs, installations, films, and archive images will focus on the unique personality of the painter with the famous moustache, as well as on his obsessions with the strange and the supernatural, and his fascination with his wife Gala, his muse and collaborator.

Emblematic masterpieces, such as The Persistence of Memory, the Face of Mae West (Usable as Surrealist Apartment), Atomic Leda, and the Temptation of Saint Anthony, highlight Dalí’s immense talent as a creator of new languages and unique canvases, inspired by the greatest masters of painting, ranging from Velasquez, Raphael, Michelangelo, and Vermeer to Millet.

The latest production by Gianfranco Iannuzzi, Renato Gatto, and Massimiliano Siccardi will focus on the various facets of the artist’s approach: from his initial Impressionist- and cubist- inspired works to his mystical works with their religious themes, and his Surrealistic period to his work with the theatre, photography, and the cinema.

More than 30 years after his death, Dalí and his ‘Paranoiac-Critical Method’ still resonates today.

Discover, from a fresh perspective, the painter’s hallucinations and dreamlike delirium, which he channelled into artistic works. ‘Dali: the endless enigma’, which will last for around 40 minutes, will reflect the painter’s inner world in an almost hypnotic atmosphere.

The entire digital exhibition will be set to the music of Pink Floyd. Constantly experimenting and rejecting all rational mechanisms, these icons of painting and music shared a fantastical visual imagination, in which obsessive visions and technical virtuosity were blended.
Dalí’s deep colours and extended and voluminous forms emerge on the walls to the sound of tracks from legendary albums such as The Dark Side of the Moon and The Wall, plunging you into a soaring, peaceful, and troubling world.

This retrospective exhibition associated with the music of the legendary 1960s group, will take you on a timeless journey that awakens the subconscious and buried thoughts, in which Dalí’s oeuvre remains a mystery and an endless enigma.

With the collaboration of the Fundació Gala-Salvador Dalí

Listen to the playlist of the exhibition