Salvador Dal – Divines cratures

Edition: Bilingual (Text in English and French)

Proliferating ants, lace-clad rhinoceroses, apocalyptic horse, rotten donkey, spidery elephant, pet ocelot, and anteater on a leash Salvador Dal imagined a fantastical bestiary revisiting ancient mythology, medieval representations, and those of artists such as Breughel and Bosch.

Transgressing scientific classifications of the animal world, this bestiary is unique because it is linked to Dals theory of the irrational and the psyche of human beings, primarily that of the artist himself. Fantasies, dreams, phobias, metamorphoses, hallucinations, and chain symbolisations become symptoms for analysts and fuel an imaginary world of chimeras, supernatural and divine creatures.

This accompanying exhibition catalogue offers an immersion in the Dal universe and its extraordinary bestiary through more than 90 works rarely shown to the public, whose diversity (paintings, drawings, engravings, sculptures, photographs, films, etc.) is a reflection of Dals polymorphous talent.