Dalí's swan-song to Surrealism unfurls in poster form — the Venus de Milo multiplying twenty-eight times until, from a fever of flies and phosphene dots, the ghostly face of a matador rises. It is bullfight, optical illusion and love letter to Gala all at once, a picture you can stare into for an hour and never finish reading. Floated on a crisp white passe-partout in a whisper-thin aluminium frame, the chaos is given cool, museum-quiet composure. And oh, what chaos it tames: every flyspeck a synapse, every replicated Venus a heartbeat in the great delirious metronome of desire, the whole sheet vibrating like a migraine that has decided to become beautiful. To gaze upon it is to feel one's own retina conscripted into Dalí's fever-dream, the matador surfacing and dissolving and surfacing again until you no longer know whether you are looking at the picture or the picture is looking, hungrily, back at you — and the cool aluminium frame only sharpens the vertigo, a clinical lab dish in which a fully grown hallucination has been left, against all sense, to bloom.
- Medium
- Offset lithograph poster
- Framing
- Cheap aluminium frame with passe-partout, glazed
- Artwork size
- 390 mm × 480 mm
- Framed size
- 510 mm × 610 mm
