The Gala-Salvador Dali Foundation Launches Platform Dali, a New Art and Science Program

"The Gala-Salvador Dalí Foundation presents Platform Dalí, a new international program inspired by the Empordà-born artist whose work was profoundly shaped by the scientific advances of the 20th century. Directed by the curator and art historian Mónica Bello, an internationally recognized leader at the intersection of art and science and former Head of Arts at CERN, Geneva, Platform Dalí fosters dialogue between artists and scientists to explore new ways of understanding the world."

"Dalí observed his time through the lens of science. His work and thought absorbed and reimagined concepts from atomic physics, relativity, genetics, neuroscience, mathematics and early computing, weaving them into a cosmology of his own. Throughout his life, he cultivated an extensive intellectual ecosystem, being inspired and in some cases establishing long-term dialogues with scientists such as Santiago Ramón y Cajal, Severo Ochoa, James Watson, and Francis Crick."

Platform Dalí is a new international program by the Gala-Salvador Dalí Foundation that fosters dialogue between artists and scientists. Mónica Bello directs the program; she is an art historian and former Head of Arts at CERN. The initiative seeks to hybridize art and science to explore limits of knowledge and imagination and to approach the complexity of the world through multiple lenses. Dalí drew on 20th-century scientific advances—atomic physics, relativity, genetics, neuroscience, mathematics, and early computing—and engaged with scientists such as Santiago Ramón y Cajal, Severo Ochoa, James Watson, and Francis Crick. Platform Dalí is based in Barcelona and collaborates with leading science centers.

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