March 20, 2024.- The Casa Cervantes Museum, state-owned museum of the Ministry of Culture, has inaugurated this morning the new exhibition space ‘Cervantes sin fin’ with the exhibition framed within the celebration of the 120th anniversary of the birth of Salvador Dalí, ‘A Dalí comes to see me’. The event was attended by Pedro González, director of the Casa de Cervantes Museum, and the deputy delegate of Government in Valladolid, Jacinto Canales de Caso.
This new space has been conceived to make known works of passage, from the presentation of the latest works incorporated into the collection to invited pieces, with which to expand and understand the museum’s collection.
A Dalí comes to see me
The first piece presented within the exhibition ‘A Dalí comes to see me’ is a book acquired in August 2023 by the Ministry of Culture. It is an English translation of ‘Juan sin tierra’, a songbook by the French-German poet Yvan Goll. The volume, composed of more than 70 poems and about 4000 verses, appears animated in its interior guards with a dedication to marker made by Salvador Dalí. This dedication, interpreted in a quixotic key, was made in 1962 and directed to Gonzalo Serraclara Berta, cousin of the artist and lawyer of the family during the 50’s and 60’s.
The exhibition will remain open until June 30 and can be visited free of charge from Thursday, March 21 until Sunday, April 7.
A cultural program for all audiences
In addition to the exhibition, and framed within the celebration of the 120th anniversary of the birth of Dalí, the Museum has organized a wide program of cultural activities with proposals for all audiences.
There will be a series of lectures given by professors of literature such as José Manuel Lucía Megías or José Montero Reguera and university professors such as Irene García Chacón or María Soliña Barreiro. In addition, commented film proposals will be made that will have directors and film critics, such as the Vallisoletano Francisco Hervada, director of ‘Fragile’, free adaptation of, ‘The Graduate Glassmaker’, and Carlos F. Heir, with an intervention regarding the theoretical passion, failures and creative flashes that Salvador Dalí had in the world of cinema. There will also be music, with dramatized readings accompanied by guitar and a musical evening starring Diego Fernández Magdaleno’s piano, 2010 National Music Award.
This cultural agenda will be completed by a series of educational workshops, collective creation or writing and image with which to bring the museum closer to different public profiles.
Admission to all activities programmed by the Casa de Cervantes Museum is free.
The museum grows
From the investment in cultural goods that the Ministry of Culture has made in 2023 for public collections, the Casa de Cervantes Museum has increased its collection with a selection of works related to the ‘Cervantes universe’. Next to the poem that is now exhibited, the purchase of a portrait of Isabel de Valois that follows models of Sofonisba Anguisola, an aguada by José Jiménez Aranda, a set of 15 engravings that represent quixotic scenes and a batch of 23 tables with scenes of this same masterpiece made in 1885 by the Spanish painter and illustrator Manuel García Rodríguez stands out.