The Gala-Salvador Dalí Foundation will exhibit the 'Madonna of Portlligat'
The institution begins a phase in which it aims to strengthen its intellectual influence with a surplus of 7.6 million euros and record attendance.
BarcelonaAfter losing around €3 million in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic, this year the Gala-Salvador Dalí Foundation "comes full circle," as the foundation's president, Jordi Mercader, said this Friday during a breakfast meeting. Now, a new phase is opening in which the institution aims to achieve greater cultural influence, driven by having achieved excellent results in 2024: a record number of 1,005,073 visitors to the three Dalí museums and more than 3.5 million cumulative visitors to the international immersive exhibitions, as well as a financial surplus. "From now on, we want to be more of a cultural foundation than a foundation that is solely a museum and talks about audience figures," says Mercader.
Among the new developments Mercader has advanced is the desire to expand in Barcelona, not with a physical space, but through a cultural program for which they want to collaborate with public administrations and private institutions to deepen the relationships between art, culture, science, and knowledge, as Dalí himself proposed. The objective is that, together, Barcelona once again becomes "a focus of global interest" in terms of intellectual development. This new line will include an ambitious scholarship program related to the knowledge of the work and ideas of Salvador Dalí, and the publication of a magazine inspired by the legendary Dalí News of the artist's American period, with articles by internationally renowned specialists on different disciplines.
In the field of exhibitions, after the Christ From Glasgow City Hall, this September the foundation will bring to Figueres a painting that has not been seen in the State since 1952: the Madonna of Portlligat, owned by the Fukuoka Art Museum in Japan. It is the painting with which Dalí began the period known as "nuclear mysticism," in which he synthesized art, science, and religion. On the international scene, the foundation is organizing the exhibition at the Museo del Corso in Rome, coinciding with the jubilee. Salvador Dalí. Revolution and Tradition, about the relationship of the artist from Empordà with his great masters, Vermeer, Velázquez and Raphael, as well as with Picasso.
