
Of course, it has to been unbelievable- how you should believe that what your eyes seen when you join into a surrealistic exhibition? A few days ago I went to the Dalí "LIQUID DESIRE" at the National Gallery of Victoria / Melbourne.
It is impressive, to see the cronical development of the painters style in a big collection of his lifework. I found a special favourite in Dalís magnum opus- the LOBSTER TELEPHONE. It wasn´t a picture what I´ve seen there, it was a small sculpture from a lobster, added on a old fashioned (the sculpture was made in 1936 from the master of surrealism) black telephone. I´ve got so impressed from the deep bizzarre idea which includes the sculpture, from Dalís ironic way to communicate to the public. I asked myself, if I would answer, when the telephone starts ringing? - no, of course not. Because I was scared from big lobsters scissors and don´t want to place them near my ear. But otherwise- the ready cooked lobster looks appetizingly- and totaly poor and helpless, fixed on top of a telephone. What a catch-22

Dalí just remove the standard funktion of the telephone- not with deleting some parts of the machine, he added a lobster on it additionally- and change the telephone from a machine made for communication to a machine which sends just questions into the surrounding. Even though it looks like a easy, childish installation on first view, exactly this is the art behind the surrealistic, provocant art- looking so easymade that they provocate the viewer, because he can´t understand how a big issue could be so simple and kind of infantile.
I sketched the sculpture near the end of the exhibition odyssee and I am still impressed from such a small thing which is transport such a big impression and a big bunch of questions to visitors.