The convergence of art and fashion, photography and painting invites us to reflect on the different ways of understanding and expressing beauty.
On the one hand, the transgressions of Salvador Dalí, marked by an overflowing imagination and a desire to break conventions, open new paths of expression and challenge established canons. On the other, the refined and elegant gaze of photographer Horst P. Horst projects idealized and timeless images imbued with sophistication and poetry.
Far from being opposed, these two approaches converge in a shared universe: the classical ideal of beauty that is, at the same time, revisited and strained.
Creative dialogue
Discover the joint initiatives of Horst and Dalí. Fashion and Surrealism come together in the service of imagination and elegance.
Staging beauty
The portraits and contact sheets of Horst reveal the creative process and the elements involved in staging Gala and Dalí.
The classical ideal
At a time marked by the explosion of the first atomic bomb, beauty became for Salvador Dalí a language and a refuge.