The Dali Museum
Coffee with a Curator – Peter Tush: “Salvador Dalí, Sculpture and the Surrealist Object”
June 7, 2017
Coffee with a Curator is a focused, theme-oriented presentation on a variety of Dalí-related topics. The talk is presented by one of the Dalí Museum’s Curatorial/Education team or an invited speaker.
In response to the current Eduardo Chillida exhibition, this talk examines the Surrealist Object, Surrealism’s anti-sculptural project that preceded Chillida’s generation and its approach to sculpture. Curator of Education Peter Tush will explore the wildly inventive and symbolic approach the surrealists brought to their construction of three dimensional objects. The concept of the Surrealist Object was developed over time by various figures including Surrealist leader André Breton, Alberto Giacometti and Salvador Dalí. The Surrealist Object was a new form of sculpture using assemblage to reconfigured mass-produced objects. They sought to create symbolic objects that could address the creator’s desires and enable access to the unconscious. Surrealist Objects were deliberately anti-aesthetic, poetic, and often designed to provoke the viewer. Artists discussed include Marcel Duchamp, Giacometti, Dalí, Meret Oppenheim, Joan Miro and others.
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