"Painting is an infinitely minute part of my personality.”
DALÍ THE SCULPTOR
Salvador Dalí was not only a painter, he was a multi faceted artist in every sense of the word. He was widely recognised as sculptor, writer, illustrator, filmmaker, jewellery designer and more.
The passion and overwhelming desire to express himself sculpturally lasted throughout his entire life span, dating from 1934 until 1987.
Dalí was fascinated by this form of transformation and created original maquettes and designs to be made into surreal sculptures and objects. In this way, Dalí’s creative genius manifests into three-dimensionality, bringing form to sculptures which are amongst the most famous and beloved iconographic images created by Dalí during his lifetime.
The works are made in bronze through the lost wax casting technique. This technique consists of creating a wax model and using it to make a mold in which to pour the molten bronze.
In addition to the bronze works, Dalí created one of the most interesting collections of colored glass sculptures in the world. The collection is the result of his artistic collaboration with the prestigious French glassworks Daum Cristallerie. Dalí created his first glass objects in the 1940s, but his major work began in 1968 for Daum and lasted nearly twenty years.
Dalí found that glass, la pate de verre, offered the perfect medium for the “expression of metamorphose” which, according to Dalí, is his Surrealist perception of reality. The Daum collection allows us to view Dalí’s genius through the translucence of sculptures modelled from coloured glass.
