The wait was worth it: Salvador Dalí’s birthplace opens to the public

The home where the Spanish surrealist painter was born Salvador Dali (1904-1989) Opened its doors this Friday for the first time to the public after almost 30 years of administration.

It’s about a modernist building from the northern Spanish town of Figueras that this Friday, almost 120 years since Dalí’s birthopens the doors to visitors to remember the intense life of the genius of surrealism that started and ended in this city in northeastern Spain, and who not long ago was object of debate among young French people TikTok who turned their videos loaded with sexism some, and in others expressing admiration for Adolf Hitler and taste for necrophilia.

After almost 30 years of managementthe town hall of Figueras acquired and enabled this three-story building located on the street Monturiolwhere Dali was born on May 11, 1904 and spent his first eight yearsreported the French news agency AFP.

The works included the subsoil recovery and “a tasting on the walls to find out what color they had,” he explained Mariona Seguranyeslocal official Cultureabout this facility in which different organizations invested more than US$4 million.

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The inauguration occurs almost 120 years after the birth of the painter.

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No original objects or works by the artistwhich are largely exhibited in the museum theater that he promoted in Figuerasthe birthplace proposes a immersive visit to its origins that starts on the ground floor with a hologram of dali fathera very influential and confrontational figure with the artist, who receives visitors while working in the notary office located in that same place.

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Recreation of the notary office of Salvador Dalí’s father.

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On the upper floor they recreated the Dalí family apartment, where the room in which the artist was born is; there, on a nightstand on one side of the double bed, you can see the portrait of the first Salvador Dalí Domènecholder brother of the painter, who died months before his birth.

“It was a photograph that he found every time he entered his parents’ room. He said ‘how am I going to compete with a person who is no longer here?“, he pointed Seguranyesa fact that “traumatized”.

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In each room of the building the facets of Dalí’s intense life are intertwined.

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In each room of the building the facets of Dalí’s intense life; be the notary’s son, the teenager who loses his mother or the talented student in Madrid with Federico García Lorca and Luis Buñuelas well as the genius that impresses the French surrealists, the couple of Galathe eccentric creator of happenings in nearby Cadaques or the commercial character.

“It was very ahead of its time.that’s why he holds the hand of the scienceToday I would surely be working with the artificial intelligence and the new technologies. He was a visionary“he concluded Seguranyes.