This fall the Meadows Museum, SMU opens two major exhibitions by Salvador Dalí.
Dalí: Poetics of the Small,1929-1936, is the first exhibit to ever focus on the artist?s small-scale paintings. Playing a significant role in Dalí?s Surrealist period, the works, often times measuring as small as 3 by 2 inches, demonstrate his skill in precision and attention to detail. The only venue to present this exhibition, Poetics of the Small, will be on view from September 9 through December 9, 2018 at Meadows.
Plans for this exhibition began shortly after Meadow?s acquisition of Dalí?s painting, The Fish Man (L?homme poisson, 1930) which led to the subsequent realization of just how few technical analyses had been made of his small-scale works.
The Dalí: Poetics of the Small exhibition includes nearly two dozen of the artist?s small scale paintings and spans a time period between 1926 and 1936. Co-curated by Mark Roglán and Shelly DeMaria the collection includes important works such as The Accommodations of Desire (1929, The Metropolitan Museum of Art), Phantom Cart (1933, Fundació Gala-Salvador Dalí, Figueres), and The Weaning of Furniture-Nutrition (1934, The Dalí Museum, St. Petersburg, Florida).
Mark Roglán
?Despite Salvador Dalí?s global reputation, there is much still to learn about his artistic development and output,? said Mark Roglán, the Linda P. and William A. Custard Director of the Meadows Museum. ?In producing so many small-scale paintings, it is clear that th...