Car Naval. Rainy Taxi - Figueres, Girona, Spain
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N 42° 16.086 E 002° 57.576
31T E 496668 N 4679544
"Car Naval. Rainy Taxi" (1974) by Salvador Dalí is installed in the Dalí Theatre and Museum in Figueres, Girona, Spain. "Car Naval. Taxi plujós" (1974) de Salvador Dalí s'instal·la al Teatre i Museu Dalí de Figueres, Girona, Espanya.
Waymark Code: WM18B3D
Location: Cataluña, Spain
Date Posted: 07/01/2023
Published By:Groundspeak Premium Member Alfouine
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Originally installed for the International Surrealist Exhibition held at the Galerie des Beaux-Arts in Paris in 1938, "Car Naval. Rainy Taxi" by Salvador Dalí was recreated at the Dalí Theatre-Museum in Figueres, Catalonia, Spain, in 1974. A black Cadillac convertible is one of four main, interconnected elements of a large installation in the open atrium just inside the museum's entrance. (Dalí and his wife Gala had used in the car in the United States while living there from 1940 to 1948.) A pair of vine-draped mannequins seated in the vehicle are subjected to a rainstorm from the car's ceiling any time a visitor deposits a coin in a box on the side of the car.

On the car's hood stands a statue of a rotund Queen Esther, given to Dali by Austrian artist Ernst Fuchs. A tower of tires rises immediately behind the car and is topped by a full-size boat supported by two golden crutches. Then, at the very tip of the vessel's mast, an umbrella opens and closes while the interior rain falls.


[CAT] Instal·lat originalment per a l'Exposició Surrealista Internacional celebrada a la Galerie des Beaux-Arts de París el 1938, "Car Naval. Rainy Taxi" de Salvador Dalí es va recrear al Teatre-Museu Dalí de Figueres, Catalunya, Espanya, l'any 1974. Un Cadillac negre convertible és un dels quatre elements principals interconnectats d'una gran instal·lació a l'atri obert just dins de l'entrada del museu. (Dalí i la seva dona Gala havien fet servir el cotxe als Estats Units mentre hi vivien entre 1940 i 1948.) Un parell de maniquís coberts de vinya asseguts al vehicle són sotmesos a una pluja des del sostre del cotxe cada vegada que un visitant diposita un moneda en una caixa al costat del cotxe.

Al capó del cotxe hi ha una estàtua d'una reina Ester rodona, regalada a Dalí per l'artista austríac Ernst Fuchs. Una torre de pneumàtics s'aixeca immediatament darrere del cotxe i està rematada per un vaixell de mida completa recolzat per dues crosses daurades. Aleshores, a la punta del pal del vaixell, s'obre i es tanca un paraigua mentre cau la pluja interior.

Car make/model: 1941 Cadillac Series 62 Convertible Coupe

Viewing time: From: 10:30 AM To: 7:00 PM

Interaction with car: no

Admission price: 21 euros

Is the car an original?: yes

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