Salvador Dali: A Surrealist in Istanbul

Sakip Sabanci Museum presents the Salvador Dali retrospective once again, bringing the artist’s unique perspective and imagination forward. With the sponsorship of Akbank Sanat and cooperation of the Gala-Salvador Dali Foundation, SSM first hosted the exhibition in 2008. Now, as the world tries to adapt to what’s called a new normal, SSM is re-introducing Dali and his abstract, dreamy, and surreal world. The piece, “Surrealist composition with invisible figures” was painted in 10 years. The lower half of the painting features a whitish strip in the way of a stage, where he reflects his absence, his ego expressed by a polychrome pedestal and ruby hearte