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Dalí and Film
June 29–September 15, 2008
The Joan and Preston Robert Tisch Gallery, sixth floor
This exhibition brings together more than 100 works by Salvador
Dalí (1904–89 including major paintings, photographs,
drawings, and films to explore the central role of cinema in his
work as both an inspiration and an outlet for experimentation. Film
was a passion for Dalí and cinematic vision became a model
for his own work. The exhibition will display collaborations between
Dalí and legendary filmmakers including Luis Buñuel,
Walt Disney, Alfred Hitchcock, and the Marx Brothers alongside his
paintings to show the way ideas, iconography, and pictorial strategies
are shared and transformed across mediums. The exhibition will include
some of the most provocative works of the early twentieth century
including Un Chien Andalou, a film made with Buñuel,
which features the almost unwatchable sequence of an eye being slit
by a razor; L'Age d'Or, another collaboration with Buñuel
and one of the landmarks of surrealist film; as well as such important
paintings as The First Days of Spring and Illumined
Pleasures. The exhibition will also consider Dalí as
a consumer of popular culture—he loved the bizarre slapstick
humor of Hollywood comedians, such as Harry Langdon, Charlie Chaplin,
and Buster Keaton, and saw such mass entertainment as an antidote
for what he perceived as the pretensions of high culture.
The exhibition will extend into MoMA's theaters, where examples of
the popular and avant-garde motion pictures Dalí treasured,
those that he made, and the films created by his fellow surrealists,
will be screened. The exhibition will also be on view at Tate Modern,
London, England (June 1–September 7, 2007); the Los Angeles
County Museum of Art, California (October 14, 2007–January
6, 2008); and the Salvador Dalí Museum, St. Petersburg, Florida
(February 1–June 1, 2008).
The exhibition is organized by Tate Modern in collaboration with
The Gala-Salvador Dalí Foundation. It is coordinated for MoMA
by Jodi Hauptman, Associate Curator, Department of Drawings; the
film exhibition is organized by Anne Morra, Assistant Curator, Department
of Film.
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