Salvador Dalí - The Minotaur

Surrealist aesthetics emerged around the 1920s and encompassed all fields of artistic research. Specifically, in the visual arts, Surrealism sought to explore the human subconscious and translate it into artwork through a mechanical writing process based on dream analysis. Consequently, Surrealist artworks propose the representation of a dreamlike dimension, completely dissociated from reality. However, this representation often relies on a hyperrealistic formal rendering, precisely to paradoxically accentuate the illusory and ambiguous nature of the surreal dimension.

The work is part of a series of sculptures that reinterpret, in the third dimension, both the style and key themes of the master of Surrealism, Salvador Dalí. Indeed, the exaltation of the subject's plastic qualities and the exaggerated volumetric rendering correspond to the exaggerated hyperrealist plasticity of his paintings, with a perfect rendering of every minute detail. The composition is based on a strong element of quotation which, combined with the mechanical writing process, gives life to a completely surreal entity, originating from an unconscious and dreamlike dimension. In the case of this work, Dalí's quotation is expressed in two directions. On the one hand, the myth of the Minotaur, trapped in the labyrinth, is a key figure in Surrealist aesthetics, an image of the meanders of the unconscious. Furthermore, on a formal level, the statue's composition recalls the affected and elegant pose of Donatello's David. Here too, the figure is dotted with openings that delve into its innermost self.

Salvador Dalí (Figueres 1904-1989). A major representative of historical Surrealism, he was a photographer, writer, and filmmaker (his collaboration with Luis Buñuel is famous) as well as a painter. His works are based on the principles of psychoanalytic associationism, following the teachings of André Breton. His style is characterized by a turgid, harsh hyperrealism, in which his subjects display an obsessive attention to detail. His compositions are a mix of free associations, biomorphic organisms, and cultural references.

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