Dalí Fait le Mur

Dalí Fait le Mur

Location: 11 rue Poulbout // 18ème

End Date: March 15 2015

Perched atop Montmartre at the heart of the historic Parisian art scene, you’ll find an entire museum devoted to Salvador Dali. The aptly named l’Espace Dali houses the namesake’s permanent collection, as well as a rotating array of Surrealist-inspired works.

Currently on display, the “Dali Fait le Mur” exhibition showcases more than 20 street artists’ interpretations of the master’s motifs and the movement’s themes.

Walking through the dark angular space, the exhibition’s bold colors and cartoonish pop-culture icons jump out in contrast to the familiar bronze casts and melting watches.

Creations like Zokatos’ Luxury Consumption—with its mix of high fashion allusion and commonplace utensils—echo the provocative and anti-capitalistic sentiments found in Dali’s own work.

Other pieces, like Kool Koor’s Thunder, accentuate the technical pillars of street art; namely, bold swathes of color, nontraditional mediums and detailed stencils.

With these artists’ interpretations, l’Espace Dali takes the surrealist movement a step further.

“Dali Fait le Mur” adds a layer of anachronism to an already dissociative and free-flowing artistic tradition.

Whether one views the urban art movement as a wave of vandalism or as the latest incarnation of Postmodernism, “Dali Fait le Mur” stakes an important claim in the expanding notion of what can and does constitute art today.

(all photos from Dali Fait le Mur)

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