On December 4th, 2024, Harabel Contemporary inaugurated “Sogno Divino”, an exhibition featuring 100 original illustrations by Salvador Dalí, inspired by the literary masterpiece The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri and took place at Naan Gallery. The exhibition is open for the public till February 12th, 2025.

The exhibition “Dalì – The Divine Comedy” is a famous series of 100 xylographic works, with which Salvador Dalì, in the context of his continuous research, tested himself with the greatest masterpiece of Italian literature, not only for its closeness to the subject, but also because the interpretation that Dalì offers of the Divine Comedy at the top of the list places Dante’s poem and its author in the constellation of great visionaries.

 The sacred poem, located between heaven and earth, is an impressive dreamlike structure, composed of nightmares and ecstasies, from which you finally wake up, going out to see the stars again, in the real world, but which will no longer be the same.

Dalì and Dante, in the name of a kind of double dream that makes us discover hidden allusions and equivalences beyond the difference between the two authors, push us to reflect on a Dante despite his solid theological-conceptual structure, and on a Dalì, rigorous in his line, always fascinated by the painting of the past.

Everything goes beyond what appears.

Curatorial text by Zef Paci.