Dalí Between Genius and Contradiction: When Tradition Becomes Revolution

What happens when a Surrealist artist flirts with Raphael and challenges Picasso? Enter Salvador Dalí. In a dazzling exhibition featuring over sixty works - including paintings, drawings, rare photographs, and vintage footage - the legendary Catalan artist is revealed in all his theatrical complexity. But this isn’t just a stroll through melting clocks and lobster telephones. It’s a deep dive into the contradictions that shaped his genius. Curated by Carme Ruiz González and Lucia Moni under the scientific direction of Montse Aguer, and produced in collaboration with Fundació Gala-Salvador Dalí and Fondazione Roma, the show reveals Dalí's life-long fascination with the Masters of the past - Velázquez, Vermeer, and Raphael above all - and his ambivalent dialogue with fellow Spaniard and modern icon, Pablo Picasso. This is not an exhibition that seeks to define Dalí - it lets him speak through his works: eccentric, poetic, and ever provocative. Between polished brushstrokes and surrealist shocks, Dalí proves once again that tradition, in the right hands, can be the boldest revolution of all.