Two sculptures by Salvador Dalí welcome passengers at Venice Airport
The art of Salvador Dalí enters the passenger path of Venice Marco Polo Airport. The airport houses two bronze sculptures by the Spanish artist, St. George & the Dragon and Homage to Terpsichore, installed in collaboration with Galeries Bartoux and visible in the departures area. The initiative brings into the airport two works that express different aspects of Dalí's surrealist language, transforming a space crossed daily by Travellers into a meeting place with art.
St. George and the Dragon according to Dalí
In St. George & the Dragon, Dalí reworks the famous legend of St. George through a highly symbolic composition. The dragon has flaming wings and a crutch-shaped tongue, a recurring element in the artist's universe. The traditional tale is thus transformed into a representation in which imagination and reason, spirituality and artistic creation coexist within the same scene.
A tribute to the muse of dance
The second work, Homage to Terpsichore, is dedicated to Terpsichore, the Greek muse of dance. The sculpture compares two deliberately opposite figures: one with harmonious and classical shapes and another more angular and abstract. Through this juxtaposition, Dalí develops a reflection on the duality between harmony and chaos, once again using body and form as tools to relate reality and imagination.
For passengers departing from Venice airport, the two sculptures thus add a new cultural content to the airport experience, fitting into the path by which Marco Polo also uses its transit spaces to host works and artistic installations.
