Salvador Dali in Vienna / 02.06.2011

Dalí then and now

An exhibition in the Kunsthalle Wien from June to October presents selected works by Salvador Dalí opposite works by contemporary artists.

Under the title "Le Surréalisme, c'est moi!" (translated: "I am surrealism!"), the Kunsthalle Wien presents Salvador Dalí in a contemporary context. Selected works of the great surrealist are placed opposite internationally established works (paintings, installations, videos, etc.) by artists Louise Bourgeois, Glenn Brown, Markus Schinwald and Francesco Vezzoli. A total of 70 original works by the exceptional artist Dalí, who died in 1989, will be shown: these are mainly works on paper, but also include ten paintings (including "The Colossus of Rhodes" from 1954).

The exhibition aims to draw fresh attention to Dalí's innovative impulses and the visionary, often edgy aspects of his creations, viewed by some as provocative and controversial. The melting clocks and burning giraffes

Le Surréalisme, c'est moi!

22 June - 23 October 2011

Vienna Kunsthalle in the MuseumsQuartier

Museumsplatz 1
1070 Wien
www.kunsthallewien.at

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