ENIGMA

«Everybody wants to know the secret of my success: it is called the paranoiac-critical method. Basically, it was the most rigorous systemization possible of the most delirious phenomena and materials, with the intention of making tangibly creative my most obsessively creative ideas».

An enigma that blossoms from the subconscious and that gives it voice: this is the starting point from which the narrative thread of the exhibition “Salvador Dalí – Enigma” takes its form.
However, at the peak of his own mental destruction the discovery of psychoanalysis came to the artist's aid.
The birth of modern psychology, thanks to Freud, provided many insights to the artistic production of the first half of the Twentieth Century. Dalí himself went on to consider Freud his spiritual father and his psychoanalytical influences and his theories of the subconscious became incorporated in his art. Once the paranoia and mental obsessions took over Dalí's mind, they led the artist to lose his perception of reality: the classical parameters that pigeonhole human life lost consistency, space and time became deformed, soft, swollen, boundless and no longer reflected the sense of reality.