Fundacio Gala-Salvador Dali presents a Salvador Dalí work entitled Depart. Homage to Fox Newsreel dating from 1926. It has been received on temporary loan from a private collection, and is to be sent on to the Centre Pompidou this autumn for a major retrospective on Salvador Dalí. On view until 28 October.
On the occasion of this temporary loan, the Dalí Foundation has redesigned one of the spaces that make up the museum circuit at Torre Galatea, where another six works from the Dalí Foundation collection and directly related with this painting are also on exhibition: the painting Venus and Sailor and five drawings on the same subject-matter.
Salvador Dali Depart. “Homage to Fox Newsreel”, 1926. Oil on panel, 43 x 31,5 cm. Catalogue Raisonné Nr. 154© Salvador Dalí, Fundació Gala-Salvador Dalí/VEGAP, Figueres, 2012.
he work depicts a modern world, in which cinema and the documentary genre (with Fox Newsreel as media) are claimed by a pre-surrealist Dalí, a Dalí who stated along with Sebastià Gasch and Lluís Montanyà that cinema was an industry and should not be included in the fine arts: “Advances in cinema are in response to a process that is clearly and strictly industrial and anonymous. Its anti-artistic beauty and poetry are the result of a standardisation running absolutely parallel to that of other industries: automobile, aeronautical, phonograph, and so forth”, though he promoted Fox Newsreel (as well as science documentaries) to the category of the comic cinema of the time. – www.salvador-dali.org