Dalí in Barcelona

Salvador Dalí wrote:
“In the creation of a museum, the idea that prime always is the
money. But a museum offers a multitude of other amenities. It is the
centre of incomparable confusion. Pictures with false titles,
visitors trying to find explanations, investigators who continue
their investigations, psychoanalysts who examine if at such time I
was crazier than at another… All this represent an incalculable
attractive.”
The collection Salvador
Dalí occupies two levels of the old Pignatelli’s Palace, property
and seat of the Real Círculo Artístico de Barcelona. Near the
cathedral, a well-taken care of stage scene surrounds the
exhibition: the gothic arches, the red velvet curtains and the
illuminations create a theatre atmosphere.
More than 700 pieces
between sculptures, watercolours, drawings, engravings,
lithography’s, photography’s and singular objects have met here in
Dalí’s three-dimensional universe, maximum exponent of the
surrealism.
The 44 sculptures of
the Clot Collection stand out totally devised and executed by Dalí
during the decade of the 70’s. The fact that the artist worked alone
without the collaboration of craftsmen confers to this sculptural
set an exceptional value.
The woman, the
eroticism, the sea, the horse, Don Quixote, the rhino, mythology or
the religion are some of the subjects recurrent (and almost
obsessive) of this collection worth to be seen.