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The Archaeological Museum of Murcia hosts from tomorrow until April 27 the exhibition "Dalí in Cadaqués.
Robert Descharnes', an exhibition that features 133 pictures taken by photographer Robert Descharnes the avant-garde artist Salvador Dali between 1955 and 1985.
The Minister of Culture and Tourism, Pedro Alberto Cruz, today presented the exhibition accompanied by two commissioners, Pere Vehi and Nicholas Descharnes, which noted that it is a "very important" exposure "is paired with the previous dedicated to Marcel Duchamp "to the extent that they have" the same origin, Cadaqués, which for two decades became a little Paris of European art. "
Additionally, he said that this is the second time that this collection of photographs is exposed, the first outside of Cadaqués and thanked Pere Vehi, their involvement in the project to be "one of the leading specialists in Dalí worldwide."
Exposure, Cruz stressed that not only there is shown the documentation process conducted by Robert Descharnes a "privileged spectator of life and professional final stretch of Salvador Dali", but "beyond" showing both Dalí as the world around him.
"The pictures of Descharnes" said the counselor, "have contributed in a major way in the construction of the myth surrounding Dali and his work, creating an iconography that is now in the minds of all those who admire him."
In addition, the Minister of Culture said that exposure "could be divided into two groups of works", one in which Dalí "poses and dramatizes his body facing the photographer," and another that "simply to take snapshots, anecdotes natural, standardized, their daily life. "
In this sense, Cruz said that the show is "a struggle of giants" Dalí and Descharnes entity, in the sense that "there is a degree of collaboration, intimacy, both forms entreverarse way of understanding the world that is absolutely impossible to know where a personality begins and ends another. "
Each image is accompanied by a brief explanation of the time, place and characters that appear in it.
The Ministry of Culture and Tourism has published a catalog for the exhibition, the director described as "a jewel that will impact positively on the name and prestige of this exhibition."
In the catalog a total of 180 photographs were collected.
The exhibition will be open until the 27th of April, Tuesday to Friday from 10:00 to 14:00 and 17:00 to 20:00, Saturday from 11:00 to 14:00 and 17:00 to 20:00 pm, and Sundays and holidays from 11:00 to 14:00.
Source: CARM
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