Detail from Marc Dennis, Sanctuary, Oil on linen, 33 x 40 inches
Inspired by Salvador Dalí’s 1973 cookbook—an opulent fusion of gastronomy and surrealist theater—Les Dîners de Gala gathers six artists who transform appetite into allegory. Revisiting Dalí’s decadent world through painting and sculpture, the exhibition explores the tension between pleasure and decay, indulgence and restraint.
Abbi Kenny, Danielle Fretwell, Marc Dennis, Marc Librizzi, Hannah Levy, and Laird Gough each reinterpret the feast as a site of fantasy and disquiet: where food becomes symbol, desire takes form, and beauty teeters on the edge of the grotesque.