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Laying of the first stone of the monument to Salvador Dalí.
Figueres,30 December, 1999
A certain air of surrealism presided over the symbolic act of laying of the first stone of the sculpture dedicated to Salvador Dalí, held today in Figueres. The new N-II main road roundabout at the south entrance to Figueres became for a few minutes the stage for piano performance of the work Nexe by the pianist and composer Santi Escura, beside a six-metre cypress tree, to symbolise the...
The Minister for Culture of the Autonomous Government of Catalonia inaugurates the exhibition "Salvador Dalí. Dream of Venus".
Figueres,20 December, 1999
The Minister for Culture of the Autonomous Government of Catalonia, Jordi Vilajoana, today inaugurated the exhibition "Salvador Dalí. Dream of Venus", which can be visited up to 28 February at the New Rooms of the Dalí Theatre-Museum in Figueres. Organised by the "la Caixa" Foundation and the Gala-Salvador Dalí Foundation, the exhibition forms part of the commemorative...
Presentation of the project for the monument To Salvador Dalí, by Òscar Tusquets.
Figueres, 29 November,1999.
A 24-metre cypress tree, from within which water will gush forth onto a piano, forms the monument which the architect Òscar Tusquets has designed in homage to Salvador Dalí. With a budget of 40 million pesetas, building work on it will start very soon at the southern entrance to Figueres, and it will be presented in the course of the year 2000. Òscar Tusquets, who is a life patron of the...
Presentation of the Owen Cheatham Collection of 39 jewels and 27 drawings by Salvador Dalí. Dalí Theater-Museu.
Figueres, 15 November, 1999.
The latest acquisition of the Gala-Salvador Dalí Foundation includes the thirty-seven gold jewels set with gems of the Owen Cheatham Collection, two jewels made later, twenty-seven drawings and paintings on paper that Salvador Dalí made when designing the jewels, and an exceptional object: a scenic box with glass panels painted by Dalí during his project for the film Babaouo. The whole...
The new cupola of the Dalí Theatre-Museum
Figueres, 30 June, 1998
With the collaboration of the Department of Culture of the Autonomous Government of Catalonia, the Gala-Salvador Dalí Foundation rebuilt the geodesic cupola of the Dalí Theatre-Museum in 1998, in what was one of the most technically complex projects carried out since the museum was inaugurated. Reconstruction of this architectural feature, which symbolises the museum and the city of...
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