Dalí Universe

Coordinates: 51°30′9″N 0°7′8″W / 51.50250°N 0.11889°W / 51.50250; -0.11889

A sculpture of Dalí's The Persistence of Memory, in front of the Dalí Universe

Dalí Universe was a semi-permanent exhibition of art works by the Spanish surrealist Salvador Dalí on the South Bank, London, UK. It closed in 2010.

History

Dalí Universe opened in 2000 in a 3,000 square metre (32,000 square feet) suite of galleries at County Hall in London, England. 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 the Alfred Hitchcock film Spellbound. The exhibition was originally curated by Beniamino Levi, who worked with Dalí on the development of his sculptures.

In November 2008 Dalí Universe held an auction of 12 fashion items inspired by Dalí and created for the event. Proceeds were donated to the Fashion Targets Breast Cancer campaign.^[1]

The exhibition closed in January 2010, stating its intention to re-open in the future at a different location.^[2]

Part of the collection is now in Venice for an exhibition still named "Dalí Universe".

References

↑ Hilary Alexander (24 November 2008). "Designers get the Dali groove". Telegraph.co.uk. Retrieved 20 January 2015.
↑ "London's Dali Universe ... Moving to New Location". ArtDaily.org. 23 February 2010. Retrieved 20 January 2015.

External links

Salvador Dalí

List of works

Selected paintings	Landscape Near Figueras (1910) Vilabertran (1913) Cabaret Scene (1922) Portrait of my father (1925) The Basket of Bread (1926) Apparatus and Hand (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) 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) 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) 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) Basket of Bread (1945) The Apotheosis of Homer (1945) The Temptation of St. Anthony (1946) The Elephants (1948) Cartel de Don Juan Tenorio (1949) Leda Atomica (1949) The Madonna of Port Lligat (1949) A Logician Devil (1951) 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 artworks	Lobster Telephone (1936) Mae West Lips Sofa (1937) Rainy Taxi (1938)

Writings	Un Chien Andalou (1929, co-author) L'Age d'Or (1930, co-author) 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)

Animated films	Destino (1946, completed 2003)

Logos	Chupa Chups

Opera	Être Dieu (1985)

Costumes	costumes for García Lorca's play Mariana Pineda (1927)

Related articles	Castle of Púbol Dali crater Dalí Theatre and Museum Dalí Universe Espace Dalí Gala Dalí Salvador Dalí Museum Salvador Dalí (film) Little Ashes Paranoiac-critical method

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