Our first summer walk on Sunday morning around Pietrasanta, Italy amidst the spectacular sculptures of the Spanish artist Manolo Valdés. The exhibition, entitled “Manolo Valdés — Poetica della Traduzione” (Manolo Valdés — Poetics of
Translation), will stay on display till next Sunday, September 30, 2018. Photos: Isadora Duncan.
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Last Sunday we took a day off and paid a visit to Pietrasanta, Italy, where an exhibition of giant bronze sculptures by Roberto Barni was on show all around the town. The exhibit, entitled “Le cose vogliono esistere” (Things want to exist), will be on display till February 25, 2018. All photos: Mado Flynn.
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And, of course, our penetrating eye could not overlook so great a vision as the dancers of Italian sculptor Davide Dall’Osso, still on display downtown in Pietrasanta, Italy.
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And finally, after purifying our House with Crying Windows from the filthy fluids of Arcovazzi, we took a day of holiday, wandering around the art town of Pietrasanta, Italy just in time to admire the view of more than one thousand of colourful, floating umbrellas covering almost one km above the main centre street. Photo: Isadora Duncan.
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Dalí’s Dancer (1949) reflects his admiration for the art of dance, especially the Spanish Flamenco. Photo: Isadora Duncan.
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Dalí’s Alice in Wonderland (1977) is a hymn to the eternal girl who don’t get overwhelmed by the inhabitants of the surrealist world. Photo: Isadora Duncan.
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“I seated ugliness on my knee, and almost immediately grew tired of it”.
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The unicorn is a mythical creature prominent in legends as an intricately linked symbol of purity. The horn of a unicorn is believed capable of neutralizing any poison. In his Unicorn (1977), Dalí chose to portray the unicorn as a phallic figure whose horn penetrates a stone wall through a heart-shaped opening, from which a drop of blood seems to be slowly falling. The nude, reposing female stretched out in the foreground at the hooves of the animal and defended by the mythical beast, underlines the sensual nature of this sculpture. Photo: Isadora Duncan.
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Terpsichore is one of the famed nine Mythological muses. In creating his Homage to Terpsichore (1977), Dalí uses a reflected image, setting the soft, carnal muse against the hardened, statuesque one. Photo: Isadora Duncan.
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Dance of Time I (1979) is the most well-known and beloved of Dalí’s iconic images; the fluidity of time is represented through the melting watch as time not only moving, but dancing in rhythm to the beat of the universe. Photo: Isadora Duncan.
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Woman Aflame (1980) unites two of Dalí’s obsessions: fire, and a female figure with drawers. Photo: Isadora Duncan.
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The Surrealist Piano (1954) is one of Dalí’s major iconoclastic symbols. The artist has chosen to transform the banal woodden legs of a piano, replacing them with dancing female legs, thus creating an animate, joyous instrument that can dance as well as play. Photo: Mado Flynn.
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Salvador Dalí exhibition “Between Dream and Reality” with over 100 works in the medieval town Pietrasanta, Lucca, Italy (November 12, 2016 – February 7, 2017). The Pietrasanta Cathedral and the evocative spaces of the church and the cloister of Saint Augustine are actually hosting over one hundred works by Salvador Dalí. Photo: Isadora Duncan.
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Pietrasanta, Italy, July 30, 2015. “Il Canto delle Sirene | The Mermaids’ Song”, an outdoor exhibition of sculptures by Luigi Galligani. Photo: Mado Flynn.
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Pietrasanta, Italy, July 30, 2015. “Il Canto delle Sirene | The Mermaids’ Song”, an outdoor exhibition of sculptures by Luigi Galligani. Photo: Mado Flynn.
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