Patrons dining club: 'Dalí / Duchamp'
Monday 2 October 2017 8.30 - 10.30pm
Full address provided on RSVP
£75. Includes three-course dinner with wine. Patrons only.
Dalí / Duchamp
Join us for Patrons dining club to celebrate the opening of 'Dalí / Duchamp'.
Enjoy lively conversation with fellow art-lovers in a nearby restaurant as you discuss Dalí / Duchamp, which will throw light on their surprising relationship between father of conceptual art Marcel Duchamp, and larger-than-life Surrealist Salvador Dalí.
On the surface, these two great 20th-century artists could hardly be more dissimilar, but Dalí and Duchamp maintained a lasting bond of friendship and mutual admiration throughout their careers.
What fuelled this seemingly unlikely friendship was deeper than their shared artistic interests – amongst them eroticism, language, optics and games. More fundamentally, the two men were united by a combination of humour and scepticism which led both, in different ways, to challenge conventional views of art and life.