Sist’Art Gallery
& DALI UNIVERSE present
Dalí and Food
, a parallel homage to
the irreverent genius of Surrealism, Salvador Dalí, and to ‘Dalí and Fashion’,
the major exhibition presented at Palazzo Reale from September 24, 2026, to
January 31, 2027.
As Milan enters its
most animated season and the city turns its attention to one of the autumn’s
most anticipated cultural events, Sist’Art proposes a different way of
encountering Dalí—one in which art extends beyond the gallery walls and enters
the realms of fashion, gastronomy, desire, and performance.
A curated selection
of works
from DALI UNIVERSE & SIST’ART
will be presented both at the
gallery on Via Monte di Pietà 1 and, in an evocative dialogue between art and
conviviality, within the historic setting of
Il Salumaio di Montenapoleone,
in the heart of Milan’s fashion district.
The project explores
the intimate and often provocative relationship between Dalí, food, and
fashion—subjects that, within the artist’s universe, were never merely
decorative or incidental. They became instruments of transformation, seduction,
fantasy, and desire. For Dalí, food transcended nourishment. It was an object
of fascination and symbolism, capable of becoming high art, sensual
provocation, and theatrical spectacle. Fashion, in much the same way, offered a
stage for reinvention. A garment could conceal or reveal, transform identity,
suggest desire, or invite the wearer to become someone—or something—entirely
different.
In Dalí’s hands, both
food and fashion became manifestations of the Surrealist imagination: familiar
objects made strange, everyday rituals transformed into theatre, and desire
rendered visible.
A Journey Through
Dalí and Fashion
A visit to Milan
would not be complete without experiencing Dalí and Fashion at Palazzo Reale.
Conceived as a
journey through six poetic acts—The Prologue, The Secret Life of Fashion, The
Wardrobe, The Dream of Fashion, Performing Fashion, and finally Dalí and
Fashion—the exhibition brings together more than two hundred works, including
paintings, sculptures, drawings, photographs, and garments.
At its heart lies a
remarkable constellation of artistic and creative encounters, revealing Dalí’s
extraordinary influence on the language of fashion and his collaborations with
some of the most visionary names of the 20th century, including Elsa Schiaparelli,
Chanel, Dior, Rabanne, and Vogue.
Lunch as Performance
at Il Salumaio
From Palazzo Reale,
the journey continues to Il Salumaio di Montenapoleone, one of Milan’s most
emblematic addresses.
A place where
history, elegance, gastronomy, and fashion converge, the restaurant offers a
fitting stage for Dalí’s world. It is also a location familiar to cinema
lovers, having served as one of the settings for a scene in The Devil Wears
Prada 2.
Within its evocative
Renaissance-style courtyard, two museum-quality sculptures by Dalí—
Snail and
the Angel
and
Homage to Fashion
—take their place in a dialogue with
the architecture and atmosphere of the historic setting.
The works evoke some
of the most enduring themes of Dalí’s practice: the metamorphosis of reality,
the seductive ambiguity of images, the relationship between the body and
desire, and the perpetual tension between the familiar and the fantastical.
Inside the
restaurant, a further selection from DALI UNIVERSE & SIST’ART—including
bronzes, lithographs, and plates—extends this dialogue, allowing Dalí’s
imagination to unfold across the spaces of one of Milan’s most refined culinary
destinations.
Here, lunch becomes
more than a pause between exhibitions. It becomes part of the experience: a
moment in which art, gastronomy, fashion, and performance converge around the
surrealist imagination.
And, naturally, every
journey needs a final stop.
Come and say hello
.
Visit Sist’Art
Gallery, Via Monte di Pietà 1, Milan, and discover a further chapter of Dalí’s
extraordinary universe—where art is never confined to a frame, and where food,
fashion, desire, and imagination become part of the same surrealist language.