Robert DESCHARNES (1926-2014)

Robert DESCHARNES (1926-2014), "Salvador Dali, Le hasard objectif", 22 October 1959. Photograph. Silver print 1996, signed and numbered 50/50 under the image. Image : 30 x 20 cm ; marie-louise : 40 x 30 cm. © Descharnes & Descharnes sarl. "Objective chance" is a concept stated by André Breton, founder of surrealism. On 22 October 1959, a rock is brought to Dalí. The the next day it's a dolphin that's close in shape and size... A troubling coincidence! He calls Robert Descharnes and a session of shots take place on the same day. Dalí grasps both forms, one of them inert, hard, mineral and the other soft, biological: the eternal and the ephemeral. "The hard and the soft must be equivalent in the classical work. If they are also parallel, they achieve courteous perfection.... of the Palladian structures. "Salvador Dalí, Robert Descharnes, Dalí de Gala, Edita, Lausanne 1962, p.38