Dalí’s mustache remains intact

Last thursday was carried out the exhumation of the corpse of the painter without “no remarkable incident”

Salvador Dalí‘s body remains the same as it did 28 years ago, when he was buried after his death. “His mustache remains intact, marking 10 and 10, as he wished. It is a miracle”. These are the words that have spoken with emotion Narcís Bardalet, the person responsible for embalming the famous painter almost three decades ago and that this morning has attended the exhumation of the corpse.

Bardalet explained, in statements to RAC1, that the teacher’s body “is a mummy, like wood.” As an example of the hardness of the corpse, the embalmer has reported that forensics have been forced to “use an electric saw instead of a scalpel.”

This embalmer has recounted the moment when the zinc lid, with which the casket was sealed, has been removed, and the body of the painter has appeared. “His face was covered with a silk handkerchief, an exquisite handkerchief. As I removed the handkerchief, I saw with great joy how his mustache remained intact, marking 10 and 10, as he wanted. I have felt a shocking emotion. You could also see her hair. ”

Bardalet has described this fact as a “miracle“, although he later described that it would have been “a miracle in the Middle Ages, now it is thanks to science.”

This embalmer was convinced that “there would be Dalí for a long time”, and today he has proved it. “The mustache persists, and it is for centuries,” he has condemned.

An exhumation “without incidents”

The forensic team that took part in the exhumation works of the artist Salvador Dalí on Thursday night extracted some hair, nails and two long bones. Samples that, once carried out the genetic tests by a demand of paternity, will be restored to preserve the “integrity” of the body of the deceased.

The secretary of the Gala-Salvador Dalí Foundation, Lluís Peñuelas, explained at a press conference at 08:00 am this Friday to give details of the operation carried out between 20:00 hours this Thursday and Almost 01:00 am this Friday to extract biological samples in the litigation opened by Pilar Abel.

The foundation has considered the exhumation of the mortal remains of the Ampurdian genius to be “totally improper”, and has stressed that the judicial decision is not motivated and has no foundation.

Awkward situation

Peñuelas explained that the situation “has been uncomfortable” and that it has “grieved much”. He added that the works of extraction of samples have been able to carry out “without any remarkable incident” and has guaranteed that the exhumation has been able to carry out “preserving as far as possible the intimacy of the teacher”.

In this regard, he recalled that at the time of the exhumation of the body “there were few people,” and also “have been seized mobile phones and cameras so that they could not take snapshots.”

The group of technicians who have carried out the work was formed by three forensics and one assistant, and three people of the funeral service. Also present at the time of exhumation were members of the judicial delegation, as well as representatives of the Generalitat and the State.

Between 22:20 and 23:40 is when the most delicate work has been done. That is when the zinc lid that sealed the coffin has been removed and the biological samples taken. The Foundation has already requested that the samples removed – by nail, nails and two long bones – be returned once analyzed so that it can “rebuild the whole body again”.

It is in this sense that Narcís Bardalet has said that, surely, “Dalí will be the only people to be buried three times: one when he died, another tonight after the exhumation, and a third when they return the samples.” Indeed, Lluís Peñuelas explained that once the biological remains to be analyzed are returned to Figueres, the painter’s tomb will be reopened, “in a private act”, to rebuild the corpse.

Salvador Dalí’s body remains the same as it did 28 years ago, when he was buried after his death. “His mustache remains intact, marking 10 and 10, as he wished. It is a miracle”. These are the words that have spoken with emotion Narcís Bardalet, the person responsible for embalming the famous painter almost three decades ago and that this morning has attended the exhumation of the corpse.

Bardalet explained, in statements to RAC1, that the teacher’s body “is a mummy, like wood.” As an example of the hardness of the corpse, the embalmer has reported that forensics have been forced to “use an electric saw instead of a scalpel.”

This embalmer has recounted the moment when the zinc lid, with which the casket was sealed, has been removed, and the body of the painter has appeared. “His face was covered with a silk handkerchief, an exquisite handkerchief. As I removed the handkerchief, I saw with great joy how his mustache remained intact, marking 10 and 10, as he wanted. I have felt a shocking emotion. You could also see her hair. ”

Bardalet has described this fact as a “miracle”, although he later described that it would have been “a miracle in the Middle Ages, now it is thanks to science.”

This embalmer was convinced that “there would be Dalí for a long time”, and today he has proved it. “The mustache persists, and it is for centuries,” he has condemned.

An exhumation “without incidents”

The forensic team that took part in the exhumation works of the artist Salvador Dalí on Thursday night extracted some hair, nails and two long bones. Samples that, once carried out the genetic tests by a demand of paternity, will be restored to preserve the “integrity” of the body of the deceased.

The secretary of the Gala-Salvador Dalí Foundation, Lluís Peñuelas, explained at a press conference at 08:00 am this Friday to give details of the operation carried out between 20:00 hours this Thursday and Almost 01:00 am this Friday to extract biological samples in the litigation opened by Pilar Abel.

The foundation has considered the exhumation of the mortal remains of the Ampurdian genius to be “totally improper”, and has stressed that the judicial decision is not motivated and has no foundation.

Awkward situation

Peñuelas explained that the situation “has been uncomfortable” and that it has “grieved much”. He added that the works of extraction of samples have been able to carry out “without any remarkable incident” and has guaranteed that the exhumation has been able to carry out “preserving as far as possible the intimacy of the teacher”.

In this regard, he recalled that at the time of the exhumation of the body “there were few people,” and also “have been seized mobile phones and cameras so that they could not take snapshots.”

The group of technicians who have carried out the work was formed by three forensics and one assistant, and three people of the funeral service. Also present at the time of exhumation were members of the judicial delegation, as well as representatives of the Generalitat and the State.

Between 22:20 and 23:40 is when the most delicate work has been done. That is when the zinc lid that sealed the coffin has been removed and the biological samples taken. The Foundation has already requested that the samples removed – by nail, nails and two long bones – be returned once analyzed so that it can “rebuild the whole body again”.

It is in this sense that Narcís Bardalet has said that, surely, “Dalí will be the only people to be buried three times: one when he died, another tonight after the exhumation, and a third when they return the samples.” Indeed, Lluís Peñuelas explained that once the biological remains to be analyzed are returned to Figueres, the painter’s tomb will be reopened, “in a private act”, to rebuild the corpse.

 

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Art in Cadaqués

Art in a chapel

Cadaqués-Sant Baldiri chapel

Tonight in Cadaqués may enter galleries and artist workshops until midnight. An experience that will be repeated on July 16, August 13 and September 10, under the so-called Estiu d’Art, a proposal that wants to recover the artistic potential that has characterized this population for more than a century ago .

Cadaqués is the periphery. It lies at the eastern end of Catalonia and owes much of its charm to isolation. And the same geographical location has become a haven for many artists. But the impact of mass tourism, the crisis of the art market and certain weariness among those who have promoted various initiatives has led to the artistic atmosphere of Cadaqués has languished in recent years. To curb this reality and recover vitalism is born Perifèric project.

The objective of this proposal is to promote artists and art galleries of Cadaques. “We want to break some negative dynamics that occurs in Cadaqués, as in many other places. Is coordinating artists and galleries, to promote quality and provide an opportunity to expose all those artists linked to Cadaqués, “says Pitu Gómez, one of the promoters of Perifèric, with Tony Azorín and Maria Sola. The first decision has been to bring together the ten existing galleries and artists linked to Cadaqués and to do a poster with 40, although at present there are ten others waiting. And the second was to look for an exhibition space, complementary to the ten galleries and the municipal museum that already exist. First it was thought at the Corral de Gala a space council property that had belonged to Salvador Dalí, but is awaiting rehabilitation. But then came the option of the hermitage of Sant Baldiri, a small chapel near the cemetery of Portlligat hardly used except for some burials.

Thanks to the good availability Jaume Angelats Parson and the help of the bishops of Girona, this winter has been clean, restore and paint the nave of the chapel. “And the chapel has been available to artists,” concludes Pitu Gomez, who also runs the gallery Dieu, moviment creatiu, on the same avenue of Sant Baldiri. Except the altar and the saint, the rest of the space, which includes the four side chapels, have been stripped of all adornment and religious symbolism and available to artists.
On June 11 he opened the first exhibition with works of Tom Carr. From the last 17 it was the turn of Sebastian Skira. But those who leave today to visit the chapel and find your relay: Maya Cusell, which performs the opening at 19 hours. The next weekend will be a double performance: 52 Parlament on Friday and Saturday with Fina Miralles. Until October is expected to pass eight other artists. In addition, each vernissage there is a restaurant in the town offering a small taste.

Sebastian Skira, born in Cadaqués in 1980, the son of a renowned gallery owner and grandson of one of the great editors of European art, the Swiss Albert Skira, has been for a week watching the reactions to his work. It is “four square white floating on the dry stone walls” pieces of lacquered aluminum, with a texture that reflects and varies with daylight.

There was nothing else except an old “postalero” with blank postcards of the same texture, a whole irony about tourist souvenirs. And as if it were the thing, Skira has gone around the banks of the chapel for them to look toward the door. A lady comes in and asks if the church is ready for a wedding. Another spectator believes the paintings are part of the new decoration of the chapel. Sebastian Skira write it down on a notepad where you might be born another art project.

The hermitage of Sant Baldiri, which was begun in the late seventeenth century, consists of a single ship with semicircular head and portalada, semicircular arc, which has recorded the date 1702. The chapel is next to garden Dali’s house and from the porch is accessed Portlligat cemetery, where are buried the father and sister of the painter. Although this cemetery is little known, it has all the flavor of marine cemeteries, with several sculptures, including one of Josep Llimona.

The silhouette of the hermitage of Sant Baldiri is part of the iconography daliniana as the artist often played with the shape of the top of the bell tower and the bell made her a double image of a dancer. There is also a known photo of Dali to the chapel, which made him Francesc Català Roca in the ’50s.

The artistic offer summer in Cadaques has another focus in the exhibition Dalí, Duchamp, Man Ray. A d’starting escacs, which opened last 18th and will remain open until 17 October in the municipal museum. It has been curated by Pilar Parcerisas and also has a detailed catalog that complete the exhibits and the relationships between these three creators. This exhibition, which deserve a more detailed article, has its origin in the first visit Duchamp made to Cadaques in 1933. And as a result of the contact established with Salvador Dalí, they commissioned Man Ray that would make a series of photographs of buildings of Gaudí to illustrate an article of the Catalan painter for the magazine Minotaure. He concludes with pictures of what was the last work of Duchamp in Cadaqués: the anaglyph fireplace he designed for his house.

Visitors today come to Cadaqués will also be able to attend three vernissages: the double exhibition of sculptor Javier Corberó and artist Javier Mariscal, in the gallery Patrick Domken; Exposure Silk thousand fils in Marges-U, Gustau Carbo and Nobuko Kihira; and Jean Claude Bouthier, in the gallery Iturria. They may also consider other exhibitions and open Ramon Bigas (Societat l’Amistat), Francesc Llopis (gallery Dieu), permanent Tony Azorín and Maria Sola (gallery El Carro), permanent Elodie Loiseleur, Javier Aznárez and Ilich Roimeser ( workshop Tabakov) and an exhibition of old editions of the Cadaqués Gallery Bombelli (Espai Two). The Workshop Gallery will be exposed Fort winners 36 Mini Print International of Cadaqués and also exposing Cristina Perez and Alay (last year’s winner) is presented. Just last day 15, the Library of Catalonia in Barcelona presented the donation of the collection of engravings winners of all editions of the Mini Print International of Cadaqués. It is more than two hundred prints that complete the graphic background of the Library of Catalonia and reflect the diversity and evolution of this artistic technique. According highlighted the director of Print International, Merce Barberà, the collection is made up of the winners of this award held since 1981 in the Fort Gallery. The contest comes to meet annually to 650 artists from around the world. Since 1992 the Mini Print is also presented in England and France.

For Saturday July 2 is scheduled to open season the Cadaqués Gallery, this year with an exhibition dedicated to Joseph Beuys, in which you can admire his and other contemporary artists work. And the planning for the rest of the summer in Cadaques include other names such as Dominica Sánchez, Christine Valcke / Pau Riba (presenting a book of poems illustrated) and America Sanchez, in the gallery Dieu; Inka Martí, Koyama and Moscardó brothers, Patrick Domken in the gallery; or Casademont le vieux and Pilar Villuendas (L’Amistat).

A simple tribute is also planned the painter Antoni Pitxot in early August with placing a monolith in his honor near his house, run by the Friends Dalí Museums. A full Estiu d’art that will tonight one of his first inedible, or other dishes, like Dali would say.

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Dali was born …….

Dalí’s birthplace will be rehabilitated.

Dalí signature

Twenty years after the Figueres Town Council bought the house where Salvador Dali was born, finally it seems that the rehabilitation project to turn it into a cultural center of reference. The Ministry of Culture is willing to include a grant of 500,000 euros in the 2016 budget to begin work and the city of Figueres assume the remaining cost of the reform valued at 2,511,000.

Last week the mayor of Figueres  Marta Felip visited in Madrid, the Institute of Cultural Heritage, the Ministry of Education and Culture, where he met with the deputy general manager Alfonso Muñoz Cosme.

The talks are the continuation of a separate interview that took place a few months ago between the mayor herself and the then Minister of Culture José Ignacio Wert and are part of an initiative that has been supported by the deputy of the PP by Concepció Veray Girona.

Marta Felip expected that after the tender process may lower its cost slightly and hoped to get the involvement of the private sector through sponsorship of a club, for which he will begin a round of contacts with stakeholders in the tourism sector. In any case, it considers that the approximate cost of 1.8 million remaining is acceptable to the City Council in three years. Although the museum should then apply. The purpose of the mayor is already include a round at the 2016 investment plan to be adopted in the coming weeks. “Our goal is about the end of 2018”.

Dalí’s father in 1900 rented a flat in the street Monturiol, No. 6, winning the notary in Figueres Square and moved there with his wife, who had just married. In this house a first child, also named Salvador, who died at 22 months was born. The May 11, 1904 Salvador Dali was born another, which would become the famous painter. In 1908 he was born his sister Anna Maria. The father was the notary on the ground floor and is communicated with an internal staircase to the mezzanine, where the family lived. Just above did the Matas, who had come from Argentina, with a daughter, Ursula Matas, according Eugeni d’Ors with its beauty inspired the character of The Ben Planted. And one floor up Dalí’s grandmother and a single mother sister settled, though often made life on the mezzanine sliding balcony that had a four-meter wide overlooking a large garden Abadal-Fonsdeviela family, Owners of the entire building.

It was at the time a house in the adjoining garden, which blocked the view from the balcony was built, when Dalí changed housing in 1912, and moved a little further, in 10 of the Monturiol street , that Dalí dubbed the genie, because there had been born inventor of the submarine Narcís Monturiol, the poet Carles Fages de Climent, historian Alexandre Deulofeu and himself.

The building, whose structure and façade have been preserved almost intact, is a work of modernist architect Josep Azemar, and is part of a set of listed buildings that have been preserved in this street. Since 1961 has a plaque recalling that Dalí was born here, placed by Mayor Ramon Guardiola.

The house was owned by the Marquise de la Torre, married to the leader of the Liga, Raimon d’Abadal, and their descendants ended up selling it to the city of Figueres: first the mezzanine and ground floor (the mayor Marià Lorca, 1995) and later the rest of the block (the mayor Joan Armangué in 2000). In 2004 the rehabilitation of the facade and roof and in 2007 undertook, being mayor Santi Vila, the Minister of Housing, Carme Chacon, promised to pay reform, but since replaced the promise faded.

Uses the plan developed in 2008-2010 plans to establish in the ground floor a reception area, bookshop and tour desk; on the mezzanine, rather than rebuild housing it is to recover the memory of Dalí biopic; the first floor is a space for thematic exhibitions of historical recovery of characters and elements linked to Dali Figueres; The second floor is devoted to proposals of contemporary art and culture, and the roof will be reserved for gazebo, bar and rest area. The objective is to recover a heritage building linked to the artist’s childhood and at the same time, get that million annual visitors attracted by the Dali museum have another reason to prolong their stay in the city.

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