The [size=14][red]Espace Dali[/red][/size] in Paris will offer an exhibition from next September 9th to March 31st 2017 about the eponymous painter, through the eyes of the well-known illustrator [size=14][red]Joann Sfar[/red][/size] (Le Chat du Rabin, Gainsbourg Vie Héroïque…), in association with the couture house [size=14][red]Schiaparelli[/red][/size] and the [size=14][red]Rue de Sèvres Editions[/red][/size].

The exhibition is an invitation to an "immobile trip” of a painter and his models evolving between dream and reality, throughout the writing in drawings by Joann Sfar. In a setting thrilled with the sculptures and surrealist objects of [size=14][red]Salvador Dali[/red][/size] and the haute couture creations of Schiaparelli that inspired the artist, more than 200 original drawings and sketches will be to discover.

Trained at Les Beaux Arts of Paris, Joann Sfar offers us a drawn path in what he imagines to be Dali’s mastermind. He encourages the perdition and the folly amongst monstrous figures. What matters to him, is the exhibition to be as exciting as a fairy tale.

Besides the exhibition, Joann Sfar publishes, in partnership with the Rue de Sèvres Editions, a story in comics, in tribute to Dalí : Fin de la parenthèse, including few original drawings presented during the event.

“[grey]I chose Dali as a master in my later adolescence and have hardly deviated since, from his paradoxical teaching. I wasn’t interested in Dali the painter; it was the theorist that I loved. [/grey][…][grey] Then during this drawing work for the Espace Dali, I became intimate with Dali’s paintings. [/grey][…][grey] It took me a year to understand [/grey][…][grey] I won’t longer allow myself to describe Dali as a theorist more than as a painter. Dali brings life to Velasquez and steals from religion its sacred function. Dali’s taste for Christ is truly confiscatory. He’s right. In this troubled times that we’re living, God is a too serious matter to leave it only to religious.[/grey]” Said Joann Sfar.

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