Salvador Dalí, a surrealist who has no equal – given the abundance of exhibitions, it is nothing short of a miracle that the Art Institute in Chicago is only now dedicating him a solo show. However, the perspective ist, what makes the exhibition exciting: starting on February 18, visitors will look at a contradictory desire of the artist.
As a figurehead of Surrealism, the Spanish artist Salvador Dalí is on everyone's lips. He further deformed the already whimsical genre with his own unique charm, allowing contradictory impulses to guide him: being seen was as important to him as disappearing. The Chicago Art Institute turns its attention to this phenomenon beginning Feb. 18. It is the museum's first solo show devoted to the most famous of all Surrealists.
In Salvador Dalí: The Image Disappears, the Art Institute brings together more than 30 paintings, drawings, photographs, surrealist objects, and a rich selection of prints, books, and artist ephemera from the 1930s. They bear witness to his pioneering experiments with materials and color, which found expression in edible objects as well as surrealist sculptures with hiding places or even optical illusions and »double images.« The public can look forward to masterpieces such as Inventions of the Monsters (1937) or Venus de Milo with Drawers (1936). Until June 12, visitors can engage in the interplay of visibility and disappearance.
It was one of the most moving decades in the history of the United Kingdom: the 1980s, characterized by strikes, protests and AIDS. Photographers documented this period and in some cases became political activists themselves through their images. The exhibition The 80s: Photographing Britain opens on November 21 at the Tate Britain in London.
It is in the context of functional architecture in urban spaces that Guido Klumpe finds the motifs that he stages with his camera as the poetry of the profane. His picturesque images unfold an opulent effect with a reduced formal language, showing us the beauty of the moment in the flow of everyday life.
