Plains Art Museum is excited to present Salvador Dalí’s Stairway
to Heaven The first major Salvador Dalí exhibition in North Dakota.
This exhibition will open on December 19, 2019 through May 20, 2020 in
the William and Anna Schlossman Gallery, located on the Museum’s
third floor. Photo featuring Dalí’s Les Chants de Maldoror Plate
11, 1934, intaglio print, 13 1⁄8 x 10 1⁄16 in. Collection of the
Park West Museum. A Film and Surrealism seminar will be held in
conjunction to the exhibition on Thursday January 23, 2020 at 7:00 pm.
Philosophy for All, along with Richard Gilmore, will present the free
philosophical discussion, Film and Surrealism. Known as one of 20th
Century’s foremost masters of Surrealism, Salvador Dalí
(1904-1989) has ignited the imagination of international viewers and
artists for decades. Salvador Dalí’s Stairway to Heaven portrays
143 works on paper in a comparative study of two of Dalí’s most
celebrated portfolios: his book illustrations for the Comte de
Lautréamont’s Les Chants de Maldoror (The Songs of Maldoror,
originally published in 1868-69) and Dante Alighieri’s The Divine
Comedy (originally published 1320). Together, they express a
progression in Dalí’s personal life in which he ultimately returns
to order, reason and tradition, and presents his un- paralleled
grandiose creativity. “Beyond Dali’s irrefutable talent as a
painter, he is also an enigmatic and talented filmmaker, writer,
sculptor, and illustrator. Salvador Dalí’s Stairway to Heaven is
an extraordinary opportunity for Plains Art Museum’s viewers to
experience an exhibition of Dali’s masterful draftsmanship and
imagination in illustrative works for The Divine Comedy and Les Chants
de Maldoror. The exhibition, curated by David Rubin, displays an early
and late career work of Dali’s in an incredible pairing of the two
sets of illustrations created for two historically important literary
works. It offers not only a chance to see Dali’s iconic surreal
imagery and exquisite renderings, but also chronologically reveals a
portrayal of redemption that is parallel to Dali’s own personal,
social, and psychological development.” – Tasha Kubesh, Plains Art
Museum Associate Curator of Exhibitions and Collections Salvador
Dalí’s Stairway to Heaven is curated by Los Angeles based curator,
critic, author and artist David S. Rubin and has a fully illustrated
catalog (with an essay by David S. Rubin), as well as a 407-page
hardcover book titled Dalí–Illustrator by Eduard Fornés that
accompanies the exhibition. David S. Rubin is a Los Angeles-based
curator, art critic, author and artist who has been in the
contemporary art eld for more than forty years. Rubin served in
curatorial roles at an Antonio Museum of Art, New Orleans’
Contemporary Arts Center, Phoenix Art Museum, MOCA Cleveland, San
Francisco Art Institute and San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and
holds a B.A. in Philosophy from the University of California, Los
Angeles and an M.A. in Art History from Harvard University. Rubin is
currently listed in Who’s Who in the World, Who’s Who in America
and Who’s Who in American Art, and his curatorial archives are
housed in the Smithsonian Institution’s Archives of American Art.
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