Dali: Le Surrealisme c'est moi : Kunsthalle Vienna, Vienna
It’s like being with royalty or circus people.
– Andy Warhol on Salvador Dalí
Eccentric, madman, or genius – Salvador Dalí, with his oeuvre and provocative manner, did away with the boundaries between art and life, originality and commercialism as nearly no other twentieth-century artist did. He gave form to his vision of Surrealism as the aesthetic fusion of dream and reality in almost all media of art, but also in the way he presented himself. The exhibition at the Kunsthalle Wien reassesses Dalí's controversially perceived production in the mirror of present-day art.
About seventy selected works by Salvador Dalí are confronted with the internationally established positions of Louise Bourgeois, Glenn Brown, Markus Schinwald and Francesco Vezzoli. Paintings, sculptures, drawings, films, and video works explore the visual worlds of the unconscious, the history of art and the tradition of painting, the phenomenon of renown, and the role of art and the artist in society and popular culture.
Co-starring: Philippe Halsman, Jean-Michel Othoniel, Eric Schaal, Andy Warhol
Curator: Gerald A. Matt
Artworks
-
Glenn BrownN***** of the World, 2011Oil on panel172 x 138 cmoscill -
Glenn BrownInternational Velvet, 2004Oil on panel157 x 122 cm -
Glenn BrownWoman I, 2011Oil paint on acrylic, fibreglass and steel135 x 90 x 70 cm -
Glenn BrownSong to the Siren, 2009Oil on shaped panel on stainless steel support250 x 148 x 18 cm
-
Glenn BrownCome All Ye Rolling Minstrels, 2009Oil on panel140 x 109 cm -
Glenn BrownOscillate Wildly (after ‘Autumnal Cannibalism’, 1936 by Salvador Dalí), 1999 By kind permission of the Gala-Salvador Dalí Foundation, SpainOil on linen175.5 x 391.5 cm -
Glenn BrownIf God Exists Then Everything Is His Will II, 2011Giclee Print on Hahnemuhle Photorag paperimage 12 x 15 cm, framed 27 x 29 x 4.5 cm -
Glenn BrownLove II, 2011Giclee Print on Hahnemuhle Photorag paperimage 15 x 12 cm, framed 32 x 28 x 4.5 cm
