until Monday September 02 2013

Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía
T : +91 774 10 00
Santa Isabel, 52
28012 Madrid
Spain

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Through a selection of over two hundred works (paintings, sculptures, drawings...) organised into eleven sections that follow something of a chronological order, this exhibition encourages visitors to rethink the place occupied by Salvador Dalí in the history of 20th-century art, suggesting that his importance as a figure and his legacy stretch beyond his role as the architect of surrealism.

The exhibition—the subtitle of which comes from his article "San Sebastián" (1927), which constituted his first artistic manifesto—examines how this controversial and prolific creator of unmatched imagination was capable of generating perturbing art that speaks directly to spectators. An art that, reflecting the scientific discoveries of the times, explores and expands the boundaries of consciousness and of sensorial and cognitive experience.

Organized by Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía and Centre Pompidou, Paris, in collaboration with the Fundació Gala-Salvador Dalí, Figueres, and the Salvador Dalí Museum, Saint Petersburg, Florida.

Curators: General Curator: Jean-Hubert Martin (Centre Pompidou); Co-Curators: Montse Aguer (Fundació Gala-Salvador Dalí, Figueres), Jean-Michel Bouhours (Centre Pompidou) and Thierry Dufrêne (Centre Pompidou).