dali and film exhibit and lecture series

There’s some fun stuff going on at the Dali Museum:

The Salvador Dalí Museum in St. Petersburg presents Dalí and Film, the first exhibition examining the profound relationship between the paintings and films of Salvador Dalí (1904-1989). Premiering on February 8 and running to June 1, 2008, the exhibition reveals how Dalí combined his skills in painting with the new and exciting possibilities of the moving image to define a new art.

Featuring over one hundred works from collections from all over Europe and America, together with films, photographs, film scripts, and drawings, Dalí and Film opened at the Tate Modern in London and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and will be displayed at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City in 2008. For the exhibit at the Salvador Dalí Museum in St. Petersburg, a number of important works drawn from the Dalí Museum’s own extensive collection have been added, including The Disintegration of the Persistence of Memory (1952-54) and The Ghost of Vermeer of Delft Which Can Be Used as a Table (1934).

Dalí and Film is curated by Tate curators Helen Sainsbury and Matthew Gale (editor of Dalí and Film); Dawn Ades, Dalí scholar and curator of Salvador Dalí:Centenary Exhibition; Montse Aguer, Director, Centre d’Estudis Dalinians, Gala-Salvador Dalí Foundation; and Félix Fanès, curator of Dalí and Mass Culture. The exhibition in St. Petersburg is curated by William Jeffett, Curator of Special Exhibitions, Salvador Dalí Museum.

The St. Petersburg presentation is made possible by Progress Energy, a museum sponsor since 2002, whose continued support for arts provides a benchmark for corporate engagement in the community. Presenting sponsors for the St. Petersburg exhibition include Ovation by JMC Communities and M and I Wealth Management with additional support from the Renaissance Vinoy Resort and Golf Club and Visit St. Petersburg/Clearwater.

The Studio at 620 has joined the fun. They’re offering a free lecture series “focusing on Salvador Dali’s work in relation to film as well as an exploration into various historical strands of surrealist and experimental film.” Here’s the lecture schedule according to the Studio’s website:

• March 4 at 7:30 p.m. — Surrealist Shenanigans and Freudian Follies:Salvador Dali and the Marx Brothers presented by Peter Tush
• March 18 at 7:30 p.m. — The Eyes Have It:Dali and Hollywood presented by Sara Cochran
• March 25 at 7:30 p.m. — Avante-Garde:Personal Filmmakers presented by David Audet and Charles Peirson Lyman, Jr.
• April 1 at 7:30 p.m. — The Experimental is Now the Conventional:The Legacy of the Surrealists in Hollywood and Beyond presented by Lance Goldenberg
• April 8 at 7:30 p.m. — How To Think About Movies That Don’t Make Sense presented by Nathan Andersen
• April 15 at 7:30 p.m. — The Prodigious Story of the Lacemaker and the Rhinoceros presented by Elliott King
• April 22 at 7:30 p.m. — Dali’s Babaouo and the Nature of Surrealist Filmmaking presented by William Jeffett
• April 29 at 7:30 p.m. — Making 1965 BBC Film Dali in New York presented by Jack Bond

The Dali Museum is also offering a lecture series (Steve Persall is the guest speaker on March 12), but the details aren’t posted on their online calendar yet.

Hooray for Daliwood…

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