Salvador Dali at Centre Pompidou, Paris
. Front page of one of several magazines and books, which has been edited in connection with the exposition.

PARIS:  Until 25 March 2013 the Centre Pompidou in Paris will host a major retrospective on Salvador Dalí, that will be seen next year in the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia in Madrid. 

Text from Centre Pompidou and by Henning Høholt

The temporary exhibition at the Centre Pompidou Daliwhich took place in years 1979-1980 is still the most visited in the history of that institution

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Installation at the Dali Exposition, where the visitors can photographe them self in the famouse Dali sofa
. Photo: Henning Høholt

The exhibition is curated by Montse Aguer, Director of the Centre for Dalinian Studies, Jean-Michel Bouhours, curator of the National Museum of Modern Art/Industrial Creation Centre in Paris, and Thierry Dufrêne, professor of contemporary art history at the University of Paris West Nanterre, Jean-Hubert Martin as curator, former director at the National Museum of Modern Art in Paris
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The exhibition is impressing, and an audience hit, however, I do remember from the Salvador Dali exposition at the Arken Museum in Ishøj outside  Copenhagen, Septb-March 2000 that this included much more of Dalis deliciouse and inspiring sculptures, something that I in fact  are missing at Centre Pompidou. On the other hand the present exposition has its focus on other parts of Dalis work, which also are interesting, but i feel that something is missing!

Salvador Dali, Foto Melitó Casals

The show contains more than two hundred pieces, including paintings, sculptures and drawings. Salvador Dalí is also presented as a pioneering in performance art and happenings and author of ephemeral works. Some results wil be shown of his participation in the field of photography, theater and film.

Exposed is a selection of works from the collections of the Dalí Foundation in Figueres, the Reina Sofia Museum in Madrid and the Dalí Museum in Florida, the three major organizers of the retrospective together with the Centre Pompidou. From 23 April to 2 September 2013 the exhibition will be hosted by the Reina Sofía Museum in Madrid
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Dali painting from the exposition