Abertis, through its Brazilian subsidiary, Arteris, is one of the main sponsors of the largest retrospective Dalí exhibition to be taken to Latin America — on this occasion, to the Brazilian cities of Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo.

The exhibition, “Salvador Dalí: A retrospective” offers a unique opportunity to review the artist’s work, since it brings together pieces from the three repositories of Dalí’s legacy: the Gala-Salvador Dalí Foundation (Figueres, Spain), the Salvador Dalí Museum (St. Petersburg, Florida, USA) and the Reina Sofía Museum (Madrid, Spain), which join forces to offer the public the best of their collections. This collaboration resulted in retrospective exhibitions in the Pompidou Centre, Paris, and the Reina Sofía Museum in Madrid, in 2012 and 2013, respectively, with record numbers of visitors.

The exhibition is a review of Dalí’s entire output, from his early work the 1920s, to his later works, with special emphasis on his surrealist period. Works from the beginning of his career will include oil paintings such as Portrait of My Father at Es Llaner (1920), Cubist Self-Portrait (1923), passing through his defining surrealist stage, with Imperial Monument to the Child-Woman (1929) and Morphological Echo (1935), to his later works, including Gala’s Foot (stereoscopic work in two panels) (1975-76), Untitled. After “The Night” by Michelangelo (1982) and Topological Contortion of a Female Figure Becoming a Violoncello (1983).

The exhibition is rounded off with etchings, book illustrations, and the screening of sequences designed by Salvador Dalí from Alfred Hitchcock’s film Spellbound (1945). 

The Latin American retrospective will be on display at the Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil de Rio de Janeiro from 29 May to 22 September 2014, moving to the Tomie Ohtake Institute in São Paulo, from 1 October until the end of the year.