Dali - The Exhibition - until 27.Apr.2008 - Berlin

Hi,

I recently came across the poster for Dali - The Exhibition that will be on until end April.

Would anyone who have been to this like to give some constructive reviews? I am thinking of going the weekend after next.

Thanks

jade

Make sure you have around 2 hours to stand and stare the details of the paintings.Although, I also suggest you not to over-expect.
I found it helpful to skip the video clips too.

thanks for triggering my memory on this. in the midst of a dark and dreamy winter, the dali exhibition is fitting. i shall make a visit there sometime this week.

Hi Jade,

some people of the Berlin Kiez Club intend to go to the Dali exhibition.

You are very welcome to join us, but we plan to do this at the end of march (29th, 2pm).

I would, of course, understand, if you didn't want to wait that long.

I have been there a month ago. I thought it was pretty expensive compared to other good musea in Berlin and was less interesting. Hope I do not spoil your fun, but just wanted to let you know.

Yea, once I looked at the web site and saw the price, I thought twice myself... I haven't seen all the recent exhibits with my Jahres Card for all of the state museums, so I might skip Dali and buy the book instead

The price is €11 but if we go in a group of 10 or more, it drops to a mere €10 per person, which for a couple of hours chin-stroking isnt a bad bargain.

Ok, not a huge reduction i know, but with the €10 we save we could buy 4 bottles of Rotkaeppchen and go and sit in the park and get wasted.

@ Tibia

If we can get any discount, it is better than no discount. And I especially agree with your drinks theory. we might have to test that to see if it works...

As for the ticket price, where I come from I would not get a chance to see so much as his poster on the wall. However, I am unsure if the exhibition includes his (preferably more well known) paintings? I gather from the translated web page there is also a short film about Dali's life?

@ Tristan_F

Thanks for the invite to join the Berlin Kiez Club outing. I would love to join if I have not been to the exhibition by then.

Jade

*** Hugs for the mod who added the date to my thread title...

Yes!! I want to go!

If anyone else does, lets me know

Go! I attended under I was bored circumstances and I had nothing better to do. I am anti-dali person and after viewing this I came away impressed. You must understand that every person in my freshman dorm had the same Dali poster and I so much hated most of the surrealist movement. This exihibition demonstrated the artist that existed in his head.

In case people are stilll considering going to this, I just thought I'd mention that the exhibition does not contain many of Dali's 'famous' paintings. There are quite a lot of smaller paintings/sketches. It's still pretty interesting but I think I would have enjoyed it more if I'd known before I went the sort of things that were actually on display.

Bloody crap exhibition by an overrated crap painter!

I went to the exhibition in September and was kinda disappointed. As someone had already pointed out, you are not going to see m/any paintings that you've seen on TASCHEN. It's mostly his early and more obscure paintings. Not that it was uninteresting, but a ticket of 8 Euros (That's how much it cost with a student ID if I remember correctly) had led me to expect a whole lot more than what the exhibition had to offer...

Incidentally, an article about Dali's flirtation with Fascism

Thanks for the reviews. I think I will skip this exhibition. Probably go to the Old Masters Gallery instead.

Jade

Thanks for the article em8chel, confirms what I've always suspected...