| Date : | May 1 (Sunday) to June 12 (Sunday), 2011 |
| Time : | 11.00am – 6.00pm |
| Venue : | 7th Floor Exhibition Hall, Wisma Kebudayaan Soka Gakkai Malaysia  |
| Opening Date : | 12 May 2011 (Thursday) |
| Opening Time : | 7.00pm |
| Organisers : | Soka Gakkai Malaysia and Embassy of Spain |
| Admission : | Free |
| Inquiry : | 03-9075 6876 (Chan Yin Kwan) |
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"Every morning when I wake up I experience an exquisite joy —the joy of being Salvador Dalí — and I ask myself in rapture, 'What wonderful things this Salvador Dalí is going to accomplish today?'" — Salvador Dalí.
About the exhibition:
Dali had an ingenious creativity and innovative spirit which can be seen in his paintings, furniture designs, films, writings and sculptures. In 1968, Dali was fascinated with the special method and technique of glass making process called Pate de Verre which transforms elements from soft to hard and from opaque to transparent. This transformed Dali’s imagination into reality. He created his first crystal work entitled "Bouquet".
This exhibition features 25 of Dali’s crystal works including "The Melting Clock" and "Venus de Milo with Drawers". Each creation, executed based on the subjects in his own works, was then softened, distended and underwent transmutation, becoming a dream-like artwork.
About the artist:
Painter, sculptor, furniture designer and writer - Salvador Dali is one of the greatest masters of the Surrealist movement of the 20th century。 Dali was born in Figueras, Spain in 1904. He became proficient in many styles of art while studying in Madrid and Barcelona. By the late 1920s he had developed his own style of painting for which he became famous. Dali was a member of a group of artists and writers known as the Paris Surrealists. The group studied the effects of the subconscious mind over logic. This topic had become an interest for Dali after he discovered Sigmund Freud's writing on subconscious imagery.
Dali was an artist of great talent and imagination. When painting, Dali would put himself into an hallucinatory state to bring about images from his subconscious mind. He often painted common place objects and portrayed them in a changed or deformed way.
Dali died January 23, 1989 in Figueres from heart failure. This brought to the end the life of a most incredible artist and an extraordinary man. There may be much controversy surrounding Dali and his works these days but what can never be taken away from him was his extraordinary way in which he viewed the world and thanks to his art we get to see a bit of what was inside of Salvador Dali’s mind and just maybe our own.
** Feature - The Magnetism of Dali's Glass Sculptures **
In conjunction with the exhibition, there will be a series of programme during the exhibition period, details as follows:
| Guided tour Every Saturday and Sunday, 11.00am to 5.00pm. (appointment booking is required for groups of 20 persons or above) | ||||||||||||
Art Talk by Associate Prof. Ramlan Abdullah
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| Art After 5 Special evening sculpture appreciation sessions with cocktail reception
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| I Am Not Mad: Make your own "Salvador Dali" art piece Salvador Dali once declared, "There is only one difference between a madman and me. I am not mad." Have you ever been called "crazy" when you did something out of the ordinary or did things out of the box? Don’t be upset! We provide you an opportunity to express yourself through ceramic art and to declare "I am not mad!"
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| Registration deadline for activity (3) and (4): May 1 ,2011. Reservation by first-come, first-served basis. For registration & enquiries please contact: Ms. Ho Pei Ying at 03-90756876 or 013-3510380 | Email: arts@sgm.org.my. The Organiser reserves the right to change. |
Source: Soka Gakkai Malaysia
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