From 4 November to 28 March 2021
The Majid Foundation, in collaboration with Art Events, presents, for the first time in Switzerland, Salvador Dalí’s illustrations of The Divine Comedy.
In 1950, to celebrate the 700th anniversary of Dante Alighieri’s birth, the Italian government commissioned Dalí to illustrate a special edition of The Divine Comedy. This resulted in 100 hand-colored woodcuts—33 watercolors each for Inferno, Purgatorio, and Paradiso plus an introduction—an original and unique expression of the imagination of the most famous and visionary representative of Surrealism.
Dalí places at the center of each plate a character or particularly significant event from the canto, representing it with a dreamlike and irreverent style: Inferno, Purgatory, and Paradise emerge suspended between dream and reality in a single masterpiece
The journey through Dante’s otherworld is thus interpreted in a metaphysical and psychological key, masterfully blending the deepest meaning of the Comedy with Dalí’s artistic vision.
The Majid Foundation is honored to exhibit the complete collection of the great master’s illustrations to the Swiss public, simultaneously paying tribute to the great poet Dante Alighieri.
