October 15, 2004
Celebrating “Salvador DALI 100”

For Immediate Release
Contact: Marie R. Accrino
Phone: 203.495.1200
Email: Marie@DaliLithographs.com
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Celebrating “Salvador DALI 100”

New Haven, CT – White Space, a fine art gallery, located at 1020 Chapel Street will host a gala reception on Saturday, October 23 from 4-7 p.m. “Salvador Dali 100” is a celebration to commemorate 100 years of the Surrealist Master’s work. The fiesta will highlight a unique collection of twelve magnificent Dali lithographs which were recently published. This unique collection is the Final Edition of hand-signed limited edition lithographs and has been authenticated by Dali archivist Albert Field. These extraordinary renderings will be featured along with other rare Dali lithographs and sculptures.

White Space’s collection represents various periods in Dali’s career and reflects a variety of styles from work he created in a state that he called “paranoiac-critical activity” as exemplified by “The Persistence of Memory”, his famous painting with its melting watches inspired by Camembert cheese, to other pieces in his more molecular style.

Dali was a 20th century artist from Spain who emerged as a central figure of Surrealism in the late 1920’s. His paintings of desolate landscapes and melting watches such as “Tear of Time” changed the course of modern art. Dali, like other Surrealists was enormously influenced by Freud, whose theories were incorporated into his method of viewing the world. Dali celebrated the irrational and painted in a style of hyper-realism that made the world hauntingly vivid. His paintings were full of hidden images like “Surrealist Flower” and ambiguous dramas as in “The Don Quixote Trilogy,” all of which can be viewed at the commemorative event.

Dali’s versatility and commercial instinct ignited his popularity in the United States where he worked with Alfred Hitchcock and Walt Disney Studios; he also painted covers for Vogue and Town & Country magazines. His endeavors resulted in numerous artistic installations, a ballet, and even the design of haute couture and advertising images. In the late 1940’s, he displayed new interest in disintegration of matter as seen in “Disintegrating Mother and Child” and “Spectral Horse”, and revisited his lifelong passion of religious themes by creating images such as of “Wailing Wall” and “Christ of Gala” which are also on display in the gallery.

A rare sub-collection of seven Dali lithographs has been selected by Mick Fleetwood of the legendary rock band Fleetwood Mac. This collection has the added cachet of Mick Fleetwood’s signature on the reverse. Both White Space Gallery and Fleetwood share a commitment to art education, and a portion of the proceeds from “The Fleetwood Collection” will benefit the NEA- National Endowment for the Arts.

White Space Gallery spotlights surrealist, contemporary and abstract fine art by hosting a diverse array of original art by emerging prominent international and local living artists and sculptors, as well as works by Resident Artist Denise Parri.

Located amidst Chapel Street's fine retailers, and between two of New Haven's cultural treasures, the Yale Art Gallery and the British Art Center, White Space Gallery has found the perfect home and New Haven has a gallery where fine art thrives.
www.whitespacegallery.com

For more information and photographs contact: Marie R. Accrino 203.495.120