Dali Dali Featuring Francesco Vezzoli
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STOCKHOLM — The Moderna Museet (Museum of Modern Art) in Stockholm, Sweden presents DalàDalàFeaturing Francesco Vezzoli. The exhibition brings together two artists, Salvador Dalà (1904-1989) and Francesco Vezzoli (b.1971), with the idea of putting DalÃ’s oeuvre in a contemporary context and looking at Vezzoli from a historical perspective. The exhibition highlights the artist role that Salvador Dalà assumed. It also experiments with the exhibition phenomenon itself, by juxtaposing a historical artist with a contemporary artist, Francesco Vezzoli.
Salvador Dali, “A Couple with their Heads Full of Clouds” (1937). © Salvador DalÃ, Gala-Salvador Dalà Foundation/BUS, Stockholm 2009.
The exhibition is divided into two rooms, separated by three doors. One set of doors is locked, as a metaphor for the unattainable. In the first room, works by Dalà from the 1930s are shown in a traditional museum setting. This period has long been considered to be the best in DalÃ’s oeuvre. The second room presents Salvador Dalà the Universal Artist, who experimented in a wide range of genres.
Salvador Dalàthe phenomenon is highly interesting today, particularly his use of the mass media. It is hard to distinguish between Dalàthe man, and Dalà the celebrity. The rear wall presents Francesco Vezzoli’s work, which focuses on the celebrity cult. Using famous people in the way a painter would use colors on a palette, he parodies a social climate in which the announcement of an event has become more essential than the event itself.
DalÃÂ DalÃÂ Featuring Francesco Vezzoli is currently on view through January 17, 2010.
For more information, please visit www.modernamuseet.se/en/Stockholm
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