Dalí at the Centre Georges Pompidou

The Centre Georges Pompidou presents until March 25 of this year a grand retrospective centered on the work by surrealist painter Salvador Dalí.

This retrospective opened 30 years after the Centre consecrated this Spanish artist in another comprehensive retrospective in 1979-1980 that became the most visited exhibition in the history of the Pompidou—it received around 900,000 visitors, with an average of 8,000 visitors daily.

The exhibition presents more than 200 works, including paintings, sculptures and drawings. Additionally, the show includes performances, happenings, ephemeral works and approaches by the artists in the mediums of photography, theatre and film. Among the works included in the exhibition is the painting loaned by MoMA in NYC: La Persistencia de la Memoria (The Persistence of Memory, 1931), better known as Los Relojes Blandos (The Soft Watches).

The exhibition is curated by Jean-Hubert Martin, head curator, who was director of the Musée National d'Art Moderne in Paris; Montse Aguer, director of the Centro de Estudios Dalinianos; Jean-Michel Bouhours, curator at the Musée National d'Art Moderne / Centre de Création Industrielle (CCI); and Thierry Dufrêne, contemporary art history professor at the Université Paris Ouest Nanterre La Défense.