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MUCH ADO ABOUT SHAKESPEARE EXHIBITION AT THE DALÍ MUSEUM
Presented as part of a Shakespeare Festival in collaboration with area arts organizations featuring concerts, films, visual art, theater and more

Beginning Friday, January 11, 2013 the Dalí Museum in St. Petersburg, Florida, which holds the largest collection of Dalí in the Americas, will exhibit 31 works and two illustrated books inspired by the works of William Shakespeare. This new exhibition, drawn from the museum's collection, will be on display through April 28, 2012. The exhibition is curated by Joan Kropf, the Dalí Museum's curator of the collection.
About the Exhibition
Although best known as a painter, Dalí also was a prolific writer, producing the remarkable autobiography The Secret Life of Salvador Dalí, the witty painter's handbook 50 Secrets of Magic Craftsmanship, numerous essays and critical works including The Tragic Myth of Millet's Angelus, and even the novel Hidden Faces. His involvement in the world of literature enabled Dalí to be highly sympathetic in bringing to life a diverse range of literary classics including Dante's Divine Comedy, Cervantes' Don Quixote, Goethe's Faust, and Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland. But the one writer Dalí repeatedly returned to was William Shakespeare.

Shakespeare (1564-1616) is widely regarded as the greatest dramatist in English literature. Dalí is widely regarded as the 20th century's greatest artist of dreams. This exhibition features two suites of drypoint engravings (a method in which the design to be printed is scratched directly into a plate with a sharply pointed instrument) and two illustrated books in which Shakespeare's most celebrated creations are reimagined by Dalí. Much Ado About Shakespeare (1968) includes 15 drypoint engravings and Shakespeare II (1971) includes 16 drypoint engravings. Dalí engraved the plates with fluidity and energy to depict Shakespeare's protagonists and convey his feeling for them.

The exhibit also features two bound books of Shakespeare classics - Macbeth (Doubleday, 1946) and As You Like It (London, Folio Press, 1953), which are examples of Dalí's illustrations for texts. Compared with the emblematic quality of the engravings, these book illustrations depict specific passages from the text. Macbeth features some of Dalí's most elaborate illustrations, photomechanical reproductions of original works on paper, whereas As You Like It is illustrated with reproductions of Dalí's drawings of costumes and sets for a 1949 stage production of the play.

About the Festival
The exhibition Much Ado About Shakespeare is presented as part of a collaborative Shakespeare Festival which will include two orchestra programs, five Shakespeare-inspired films, dramatic readings, Shakespeare in song, excerpts from plays and other events from January 3 through January 26. Partners include The Florida Orchestra, American Stage Theatre Company, The Mahaffey Theater, The Studio@620, Sunscreen Film Festival, St. Petersburg College School of Music, & the USF School of Music.
Shakespeare Festival Event Schedule
For details of each event, please click on the event title.
Events listed in bold will be at the Dali Museum.

THU, JAN 3, 11:00am Coffee Concert: "Symphonic Shakespeare"
- Presented by The Florida Orchestra
SAT, JAN 5, 1:00pm Film Screening: Scotland, PA
- Presented by The Dali Museum & Sunscreen Film Festival
THU, JAN 10, 5:30pm "Shakespeare in Song"
- Presented by The Dali Museum and St. Petersburg College School of Music
FRI, JAN 11 - APRIL 28 The Dali Museum: "Much Ado About Shakespeare" Exhibit
SAT, JAN 12, 1:00pm Film Screening: Prospero's Books
- Presented by The Dali Museum & Sunscreen Film Festival
SAT, JAN 19, 1:00pm The Dali Museum's Family Day
- Presented by The Dali Museum & Sunscreen Film Festival
- Featuring film screenings, family activities, refreshments, and more...
SAT, JAN 19, 3:00pm Rosencrantz & Guildenstern are Dead
WED, JAN 23, 7:00pm An Intimate Collaboration: "All The World's a Stage"
- Presented by The Studio@620 and The Florida Orchestra
FRI, JAN 25, 10:00am
SAT, JAN 26, 8:00pm
SUN, JAN 27, 7:30pm		 Masterworks: "Tchaikovsky's Romeo & Juliet"
- The Florida Orchestra & American Stage Theatre Company
SAT, JAN 26, 1:00pm Film Screening: Romeo + Juliet
- Presented by The Dali Museum & Sunscreen Film Festival

 
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