Billet d’autobus roulé © Salvador Dalí, Fundació Gala-Salvador Dalí, VEGAP, Figueres, 2019 Brassaï © Estate Brassaï-RMN-Grand Palais
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Cat. no. OE
3

Billet d’autobus roulé « symétriquement », forme très rare d’automatisme morphologique avec germes évidents de stéréotypie

«Symmetrically» rolled-up bus ticket, forming a rare mechanism of automatism with evident germs of stereotypes

«Symmetrically» rolled-up bus ticket, forming a rare mechanism of automatism with evident germs of stereotypes

Cat. no. OE 3

«Symmetrically» rolled-up bus ticket, forming a rare mechanism of automatism with evident germs of stereotypes

1932-1933

Description

Unique Original Work
Author:
Salvador Dalí i Domènech - Gyula Halász, àlies Brassaï
Date:
1932-1933
Technique:
Photograph and found object or object of automatic origin
Dimensions:
17 x 23.5 x cm
The dimensions correspond to the original print run of the photograph
Inscriptions:
On the back: (Faite en / collaboration / avec Dali / en 1932.)
On the back: billet d'autobus roulé
Location:
Centre Pompidou - Musée national d'art moderne - Centre de création industrielle, Paris
Description:
Between 1932-1933, Dalí took on the artistic direction of a series of photographs made with Gyula Halász, alias Brassaï (1899-1984), in which certain objects, probably of automatic origin, acquire a new conceptual and artistic dimension, grounded in the essence of the photographic image. Several of these photographs were published anonymously in 1933 in the magazine Minotaure, under the heading ‘Sculptures involontaires’, each with a descriptive title drawing attention to details of the work. In this instance, the piece presented is a bus ticket, which has acquired through a process of automatism some of the properties of a stereotype. Dalí identified the stereotype as one of the characteristics of Art Nouveau in his article ‘Concerning the Terrifying and Edible Beauty of Art Nouveau Architecture’, published in the same issue of Minotaure.
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