Overview
- The Museo Nacional Thyssen‑Bornemisza opened the exhibition on Monday and will present some 128–130 works through January 24 to map how Freudian ideas threaded through Dalí's career.
- Curator Jaime Brihuega and director Guillermo Solana argue Freud was a persistent organizing influence on Dalí, and the show assembles paintings, drawings, books, sculptures and film fragments to make that case.
- Highlights include a 1938 drawing Dalí dedicated to Freud, a gallery of about 30 works illustrating Dalí's paranoic‑critical method, and a nearly 15‑metre ballet curtain alongside film clips and X‑ray technical studies.
- Major loans from Fundación Gala‑Dalí, Museo Reina Sofía, The Dalí Museum (St. Petersburg) and private collections are credited with enabling the scale of the show and fresh comparative readings of familiar works.
- By foregrounding childhood trauma, the paranoic‑critical procedure and archival imaging, the exhibition offers a new, material basis for scholarship and could change how museums and scholars read Dalí's recurring symbols and motifs.