Caixa Forum Exhibition : Dalí, Lorca y la Residencia de Estudiantes

For those who want to discover something more about the relationship beetween Federico García Lorca and Salvador Dalí, I strictly recommend this exhibition at the Caixa Forum, open until the 5th of february.

It reconstructs the intellectual and aesthetic "liaison" beetween Dalí and Lorca since1922/23, when they met for the first time at the "Residencia de Estudiantes", until 1929, when they left Madrid towards different destinations: Dalí went to Paris, Lorca to New York.

Thanks to a very rich collection with letters, writings, poems, paintings and photos, we can observe the birth of their friendship during their stay in the "Residencia de Estudiante", whose liberal atmosphere would provide the ideal setting for the formation of these young men. Since 1925/27, they shared a commun poethic, summed up in the expression "There is clarity", a strong declaration of "regreso al orden" and its models: number, proportion, rhythm, geometry, plasticity.

Special attention should be drawn to the photos of the two friends in Cadaqués, a small fishing village near the French border, where Dalí invited García Lorca to spend the Easter holidays of 1925 and the summer of 1927. Unfortunately, two years after, their intellectual relationship ended. In 1929, Dalí abandoned the clarity models to embrace those of darkness, formless, bestial erotism, even because of the influence of the Surrealismin in his work.

The exhibition is well documented, also because it records the connections beetween Dalí and Lorca and the international context of the avant-garde.

More info: http://obrasocial.lacaixa.es

Dalí, Lorca y la Residencia de Estudiantes, until 5 february, admission free

Caixa Forum Madrid

Paseo del Prado, 36

28014 Madrid

From Monday to Sunday,10am to 20pm