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The Dalí Foundation reactivates the artist's visionary spirit with a new thought magazine
An annual magazine that revisits Dalí's visions and connects them with contemporary thought.
Between 1945 and 1947, Salvador Dalí promoted a self-published publication in the United States that saw the light of day in two issues under the title Dalí News . Conceived as a space of absolute freedom, the magazine allowed him to articulate his thoughts without filters or external conditioning, in a historical moment marked by the post-war period and the growing hegemony of the mass media. From this personal loudspeaker, Dalí exercised a critical gaze against what he considered signs of mediocrity and deculturalization of his time.
Eight decades later, the Gala-Salvador Dalí Foundation recovers that editorial initiative with the aim of re-updating its critical and visionary spirit, and placing it at the service of a new platform for reflection open to debates on contemporary thought.
The Gala-Salvador Dalí Foundation presented Dalí News on January 20 at the Dalí Theatre-Museum in Figueres, the new annual magazine of thought with an international vocation that dialogues with the great contemporary debates from a critical, interdisciplinary and deeply Dalíian perspective.
The first issue, focused on the concept of the “dream machine”, revisits one of the artist's most suggestive intuitions: the possibility that technology actively participates in creative and dream processes. This idea is confronted with current thinking through twelve articles signed by internationally renowned specialists, who provide diverse perspectives from the fields of art, philosophy, science and visual culture.
The presentation of the magazine was given by the president of the Dalí Foundation, Jordi Mercader, and the director of the Dalí Museums and responsible for the publication, Montse Aguer, who held a dialogue with one of the authors of the inaugural issue, the photographer and essayist Joan Fontcuberta. The conversation highlighted the validity of Dalí's thought and his ability to anticipate central issues of our time.
Dalí News has the editorial advice of Elisabet Riera (Wunderkammer), the coordination of Clàudia Galli, junior curator of the Center for Dalinian Studies, and the graphic design of Alex Gifreu. The result is a publication that aspires to become a space for reflection and intellectual experimentation, faithful to the Dalí legacy and open to the challenges of the present.
Each issue of Dalí News will revolve around one of the predictions that Salvador Dalí published in 1957 in the American magazine Nugget , in three successive issues. Those enlightened visions of the future become the conceptual starting point of the new publication, which revisits them to explore their validity and meaning in the context of contemporary thought.
