Lecture series "Salvador Dali" at the Faberge Museum 04.07-20.07

July 4 - Dali and Science - lecture by ITMO Professor Sergey Stafeev

July 7 - Dali, Surrealism and fashion - lecture by art and costume historian Olga Khoroshilova

July 13 - meeting with Monce Ager, Director of the Dali Museums of the Gala Salvador Dali Foundation, curator of the Salvador Dali exhibition. The Surrealist and the Classic" at the Faberge Museum and the world premiere of the documentary "The Secret Life of Port Lligat" (2017). The event is held in conjunction with the "Cinema&The theater" in Angleterre.

July 18 - Dali and Renaissance lecture by art historian Ivan Chechot. The event is held jointly with the Masters School

July 20 - Dali and cinema lecture by director and film critic Oleg Kovalov

All events start at 19:00.

Sergey Stafeev

Professor, Doctor of Technical Sciences, Dean of the ITMO Faculty of Natural Sciences

The synthesis of science and art in the work of Salvador Dali can be discussed from various points of view. In retrospect, he should be compared with Leonardo or Vermeer, and in the long run we should talk about his influence on David Hockney and other of our contemporaries. The genius of surrealism was strongly impressed by many discoveries of the 20th century: the explosion of the atomic bomb and the concept of the noosphere, quantum mechanics and the structure of DNA, artistic holography and the theory of continental drift. He was seriously interested in science and was close friends with Nobel laureates Ilya Prigozhin, Severo Ochoa and James Watson. At a lecture at the Faberge Museum, Sergei Stafeev will talk about the scientific concepts of the 20th century that influenced the work of Salvador Dali and were reflected in his works.

Olga Khoroshilova

PhD in Art History, Associate Professor at St. Petersburg State University of Industrial Technology and Design, historian of Art and Costume

Perhaps no other trend has had such an impact on fashion as surrealism. The surrealists actively collaborated with fashion houses, designed clothes, shoes, jewelry, and created illustrations for Harper's Bazaar and Vogue. Lobster dresses, a phone bag, hats, shoes and other ideas of the surrealists still remain relevant and now and then appear in the collections of modern designers. At a lecture at the Faberge Museum, Olga Khoroshilova will talk about the mutual influence of fashion and surrealism, their common visual strategies for influencing the viewer, as well as about the projects created by Salvador Dali and Jean Cocteau for Elsa Schiaparelli.

Monse Ager

Director of the Dali Museum of the Gala Salvador Dali Foundation, curator of the Salvador Dali exhibition. The Surrealist and the Classic" at the Faberge Museum

The evening will be continued by the world premiere of the documentary "The Secret Life of Port Lligat". The house built by Salvador Dali in Cadaques becomes a prism through which the authors of the film try to look at the life and creative path of the famous artist, which covered almost the entire twentieth century. Landscapes of Port Lligat and Cap de Creusa, places extremely important to Dali, invariably appeared in his paintings. They not only defined and shaped his artistic vision in many ways, but also symbolized for him the relationship with his father and sister Anna-Maria, who was also Dali's first model. The film tells about the little-studied chapters of the artist's life and brings us closer to solving the mystery of his work.

As part of the lecture series in "Cinema&Theater" in Angleterre, a meeting will be held with Monse Ager, director of the Dali Museums of the Gala Salvador Dali Foundation, one of the world's most authoritative experts on the work of Salvador Dali. We will talk about how the concept of the exhibition "Salvador Dali was conceived and created. Surrealist and Classic" at the Faberge Museum, about the latest acquisitions, discoveries and plans of the Gala Salvador Dali Foundation, the main institution dedicated to the study of the artist's legacy.

Ticket price: 450 rubles. Pre-sale of tickets is available at the Faberge Museum ticket office, on the website tickets.fsv.ru in the "Events" section, as well as on the "Cinema" website&The theater" in Angleterre.

www.angleterrecinema.ru On the day of the event - only at the Cinema box office&The theater" in Angleterre.

Ivan Chechot

Art historian, PhD in Art History, Associate professor and head of the History of Art program at the Faculty of Liberal Arts and Sciences of St. Petersburg State University, a leading researcher at the Russian Institute of Art History.

Despite the fact that Salvador Dali is known to the mass audience, first of all, as an uncompromising reformer of the art world, he, like no other, consistently declared the value of classical European art and systematically turned in his works to the traditional ensemble of ideas and images for the Renaissance. Dali undoubtedly felt a spiritual kinship with the great creators of the Italian Renaissance - Leonardo, Dante, Cellini and, of course, Michelangelo, whose influence on Dali's work will be discussed at the lecture by art critic Ivan Dmitrievich Chechot.

Oleg Kovalov

Screenwriter, film critic, director, film historian

The figure of Salvador Dali, a great worker and a powerful visionary, has long been considered by the masses to be almost the main symbol of the artistic innovations of the 20th century. However, this genius of paradoxes himself defiantly declared that he was based on the traditions of classical art and defiantly rejected the programmatic attitudes of the radical avant-garde. It is all the more interesting to trace his bizarre relationship with such a child of brisk modernity as cinema. Dali wrote scripts for the "early" Luis Bunuel, collaborated with Alfred Hitchcock, began work on Walt Disney animation - in addition, in his works he originally interpreted the images of many celebrities from the world of cinema. In Oleg Kovalov's lecture, we will talk about the phenomenon of "kinogeny", which Dali defended in his early articles, about the embodiment on the screen of images of the subconscious and irrational matters, which are the material for the works of surrealists, as well as about such an almost unexplored topic as Sergei Eisenstein's views.