FEMME À LA TÊTE DE ROSE
4 July 2020
MANNEQUIN JAVANAIS
10 July 2020
L’ÉSCLAVE MICHELIN
L’Ésclave de Michelin depicts Dalí’s elaboration upon an idea belonging to classical art, which has been surrealistically disfigured by ironic and transgressive additions. Even within the title itself Dalí’s paradoxical intent is clear. The artist created this work in a rather simple way. He inserted a replica of a statuette by Michelangelo into two Michelin truck tires, one of which serves as a base while the other encircles the waist. This show of irreverence towards bourgeois cultural expectations contains within it the underlying theme that art and beauty, in some senses are enslaved by the mechanical and technological constraints of the modern world.
TECHNICAL INFORMATION
Date: 1966
Material: bronze
Technique: lost wax process
Edition size: 6 plus 2HC
Height: 30 cm
Direct intervention (created by Dalí): the idea, the image and original maquette
Indirect intervention (created by artisans): lost wax process and patina
