Sculptural composition “Salvador Dali”

Bronze - 3m, Valencia (Spain) 2004

Making Dali in a real style would be stupid, make it in Dali style – plagiarism! It was necessary to answer the question: who is Dali?

And only when the sculptor realized this and answered – the work took place. The sculptor discovered that the first surrealistic artist was Cervantes and the first image was Don Quixote. Dali is Don Quixote of the twentieth century. He is spanish. He emerged from the depths of his nation and his Gala – this is the ideal Dulcinea in Cervantes.

Dali is a farce and a provocation.

The crucifix consists of the head of Dali and the snake nailed to a spear … From Dali, the era of romanticism ended, we were face to face with some kind of emptiness. Dali was the last before the abyss – probably, all this became the understanding of Dali. This is a very specific, possibly cruel, but truthful image of Dali.