DALI:
THE EXHIBITION – BERLIN
Surrealism at Potsdamer Platz
The
Spanish artist born Salvador Filipe Jacinto Dalí y Domènech
in Catalonia Spain, as adept at self promotion, and known for his outsized
personality as for his brilliant art which reshaped the world we see
into a place of twisted imagination can be explored in Berlin. The Dali
Exhibition at Potsdamer Platz presents the visionary world of the experimental
master in the heart of Germany’s vibrant capital. Opened in 2009
on the 20th anniversary of the artist's death, coincidentally the same
year as the Berlin Wall came tumbling down (see Fall
of the Berlin Wall).
Designed by founder and curator, Carsten Kollmeier, the privately owned
museum features drawings and lithographs, etchings, woodcuts and sculptures,
documents and film, drawn from over 2,000 examples from private collections
around the world. You won't find major paintings here, but a look into
the development of the work and style of the iconic master of illusory
dream state.
Dali
himself claimed to not really known the meaning of his own art, even
as he executed
it, expecting the meaning to come from the viewer,
though he relished the inventiveness of his process. Among others you’ll
find in the displays, the movement of “bulletism” of which
the artist is probably one of the few proponents is represented by "Don
Quixote", his first lithographic work, accoplished by shooting antique
musket balls into a lthographic stone – the “Surrealist Angel” sculpture
which Dali grandly and perhaps with a certain surrealist linquistic panache
said was representing himself the God of Surrealism as the bearing the “Gospel
of Surrealism” to mankind on Earth. Dali’s work ran from
the designing of the movie dream sequence in Alfred Hitchcock’s
1943 thriller film “Suspicion” to the religious Papal-blessed
Dalí work, the “Apocalypse
of St. John” which Dalí accomplished crushing nails and
sewing machine into etching plates with a steam roller.
Visiting Dali Exhibition in Berlin
The Dali
Exhibition museum is quite easy to get to, just outside the Potsdamer
Platz U-bahn
station at Leipziger Platz 7 (the subway exit
opposite the main Potsdammer Sony Center), take the S1, S2, S25 or the
U2 line. Uposn arrising from below, just look for the red lips. The Dali
exhibition is open Monday to Saturday from Noon to 8pm and on Sundays
from 10am to 8pm. Admission is €12.50 for adults, reduced admission
of €9.50 with a Berlin Welcome Card, Students, Disabled or Military €9,
and a Family Ticket for €31. Guided tours are €7 in addition
to entrance price. A small shop on site offers the opportunity to send
home a Dali postcard, and a snack corner for a decidedly unsurrealistic
snack. You can buy tickets online, or just drop in. © Bargain
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