Inside Dalí Universe with James Sanders: Salvador Dalí Multiple Sculpture "Profile of Time"

From today, Wednesday 27th May, the Dalí Universe Team invites you on a virtual journey that will lead you inside the Dalinian Universe with #InsideDaliUniverse, to discover the many symbols and evocations that Salvador Dalí wanted to impart to us through his sculptures. In the first encounter, James Sanders, Project Manager of the Dalí Universe, will reveal the hidden meanings in the sculpture “Profile of Time”. It will be an opportunity to offer each one of you the possibility of continuing to visit the Dalí Universe collection in a period when some of our exhibitions are not accessible to the public. Enjoy your journey inside the Dalí Universe.
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Dalí Multiple Sculpture "Profile of Time"

Echoing Dalí’s 1931 painting The Persistence of Memory, in which the famous melted watch appears for the first time, this sculpture is an ingenious creation - full of symbolism and hidden meanings. Dalí became obsessed with the flow of time and portrays the clock as soft, a type of symbolism he reserved for those objects he loathed. The soft watch liquefies lamentably over the tree forming a double image. Tilting ones head to the left a hidden image appears; the clock face changes into the artists profile, an eye, a pointed nose and the 9 suggestive of Dalí’s moustache. Dalí enjoyed surprising people and encouraged them to participate in his art. The shape of the limp clock immediately recalls Dalí’s 1929 work The Great Masturbator, a self-portrait with a distorted long head in profile looking downward. Dalí enjoyed rotating images, experimenting with malleability; he manipulated and mutated everyday objects to disrupt reality, blurring the boundaries between the unconscious and conscious. The melting clock evokes sensations of timelessness found in the dream world, the watch is fluid, almost sinuous and time becomes meaningless.

Technique: lost wax process
Material: bronze
Height: 51 cm
Patina: green
Edition size: 350 + 35 EA
Signature: inscribed
Date: conceived in 1977 first cast in 1984 (casting date on certificate)
Foundry: Perseo, Mendrisio, Switzerland

This sculpture, 51 cm. h., is cast in 3 separate editions, each with a different patina. The maquette for this sculpture is an original artwork by Salvador Dalí, Profile of Time, gouache, 1977. The edition is casting at Perseo Foundry, Mendrisio, Switzerland. To date, 51 cm. h. is the only size of a bronze multiple sculpture edition being cast in this image. REFERENCE: Robert & Nicolas Descharnes, Dalí: The Hard and the Soft, Sculptures & Objects. Eccart, 2004. pg. 238 ref. 615.

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