It is “undoubtedly a great first on the scale of Brittany”enthuse those responsible for the Cristel Éditeur d’Art Center in Saint-Malo. Since mid-October 2024, and until Saturday January 11, 2025, the 25 lithographs produced on Japanese paper by Salvador Dalí in 1973 to illustrate the Pantagruel by Rabelais, are all exhibited there. Hence the title of the exhibition: Dalí. Rabelaisian surrealist.
Echoing the Center Pompidou exhibition
They come, “echoing the “Surrealism” exhibition currently organized at the Center Pompidou, in Paris until January 13, 2025”underlines Élodie Penot, the director.
“An exhibition which it must be emphasized that it is a little Saint-Malo! How can we forget, in fact, that the two Rabelaisian heroes, Gargantua and Pantagruel, came to Dol-de-Bretagne in their numerous and picturesque adventures? » recalls the center.
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Adventures that one of the most famous painters of surrealism with Magritte chose to illustrate with unusual verve. “Dalí has never seemed so free, so inventive, so provocative and even, dare we say it, as delirious as in this series of 25 works”explained Ariel Termine, advisor to international artists, during the inauguration of the Saint-Malo exhibition. An exhibition that promises to be “very graphic and very colorful”.
Until Saturday January 11, 2025. Center Cristel Éditeur d’Art, 9, boulevard de La Tour-d’Auvergne, in Saint-Malo. Open every afternoon, Monday to Saturday from 2:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m., as well as Thursday and Saturday from 9:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Free entry. More information on 02 23 18 19 53.
