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Coordinates: 51°30′9″N 0°7′8″W / 51.5025°N 0.11889°W
A sculpture of Dalí's The Persistence of Memory, in front of the Dalí Universe
Dalí Universe was a permanent exhibition of art works by the Spanish surrealist Salvador Dalí which was housed in a 3,000 square metre (32,000 square feet) suite of galleries at County Hall in London, England. It opened in 2000 and closed in January 2010. As stated on the website, it intends to re-open at a different location. Over 500 works were on display, including sculptures dating from 1935–1984, drawings, lithographs, gold and glass objects and a Dalí-inspired furniture collection. It did not feature major paintings except for a huge oil on canvas from Alfred Hitchcock film Spellbound (1945 film). The exhibition was originally curated by Beniamino Levi, who worked with Dalí on the development of his sculptures.
Dalí Universe was an exhibition at the County Hall Gallery, which also stages other art exhibitions, but it is better known under its own name.
Part of the collection is now in Venice for an exhibition still named Dalì Universe.
Dalí himself created the Teatre-Museu Dalí in his home town of Figueres in Catalonia. There is also a Salvador Dalí Museum in St. Petersburg, Florida, and a Salvador Dalí Gallery in Pacific Palisades, California, both in the United States. Paris is home to the Espace Dali, another independent gallery devoted to the works of the surrealist artist.
External links
- Official site
- The Dalí Universe Venice
- An article with more details of the exhibits
- An exhibition with some of the sculptures once shown at the Dalì Universe
Salvador Dalí Selected
paintingsLandscape Near Figueras (1910) • Vilabertran (1913) • Fiesta in Figueres (1914–16) • Port of Cadaqués (Night) (1918–19) • The Artist's Father at Llane Beach (1920) • The Garden of Llaner (Cadaqués) (1920–21) • Cabaret Scene (1922) • Cubist Self-Portrait with "La Publicitat" (1923) • Self-portrait with L'Humanitie (1923) • Portrait of Luis Buñuel (1924) • Siphon and Small Bottle of Rum (1924) • The Basket of Bread (1926) • Honey Is Sweeter Than Blood (1927) • The Lugubrious Game (1929) • The First Days of Spring (1929) • The Great Masturbator (1929) • The Persistence of Memory (1931) • The Ghost of Vermeer of Delft Which Can Be Used As a Table (1934) • Morphological Echo (1934–36) • Archaeological Reminiscence of Millet's Angelus (1935) • Autumn Cannibalism (1936) • Soft Construction with Boiled Beans (Premonition of Civil War) (1936) • The Burning Giraffe (1937) • Metamorphosis of Narcissus (1937) • Swans Reflecting Elephants (1937) • Apparition of Face and Fruit Dish on a Beach (1938) • The Sublime Moment (1938) • Shirley Temple, The Youngest, Most Sacred Monster of the Cinema in Her Time (1939) • The Face of War (1940) • Slave Market with the Disappearing Bust of Voltaire (1940) • Honey is Sweeter than Blood (1941) • Geopoliticus Child Watching the Birth of the New Man (1943) • Dream Caused by the Flight of a Bee Around a Pomegranate a Second Before Awakening (1944) • Galarina (1944–45) • Basket of Bread (1945) • The Temptation of St. Anthony (1946) • The Elephants (1948) • Leda Atomica (1949) • The Madonna of Port Lligat (1949) • Christ of Saint John of the Cross (1951) • Galatea of the Spheres (1952) • The Disintegration of the Persistence of Memory (1952–54) • Crucifixion (Corpus Hypercubus) (1954) • Young Virgin Auto-Sodomized by the Horns of Her Own Chastity (1954) • The Sacrament of the Last Supper (1955) • Living Still Life (1956) • The Discovery of America by Christopher Columbus (1958–59) • The Ecumenical Council (1959–60) • Galacidalacidesoxyribonucleicacid (1963) • Tuna Fishing (1966–67) • The Hallucinogenic Toreador (1968–70) • La Toile Daligram (1972) • The Swallow's Tail (1983)Other works Writings: Un Chien Andalou (1929) • L'Age d'Or (1930) • Giraffes on Horseback Salad (1937) • Libretto for Bacchanale (1939) • The Secret Life of Salvador Dalí (1942, autobiography)
Films: Un Chien Andalou (1929) • L'Age d'Or (1930) • Spellbound (1945, dream sequence) • Impressions of Upper Mongolia (1975, narration)
Animated films: Destino (1946, completed 2003)
Logos: Chupa Chups
Opera: Être Dieu (1985)
Sculpture: Lobster Telephone (1936) • Mae West Lips Sofa (1937)
Costumes: costumes for García Lorca's play Mariana Pineda (1927)
Novels: Hidden Faces (1944)Related articles Castle of Púbol • Dalí Universe • Espace Dalí • Dalí Theatre and Museum • Salvador Dalí Museum • Salvador Dalí (film) • Little Ashes • Gala Dalí • Paranoiac-critical method
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