The exhibition devoted to Salvador Dalí opens in Madrid at the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía on 27 April until 2 September 2013. It's the biggest retrospective ever seen in Spain since 1983.

The show was given the Crystal Globe prize by the French Press and the ACCA awards given by the Catalan Arts Critics Association. It received 790.090 visitors at the Pompidou Centre in Paris.

The retrospective is curated by Montse Aguer, Director of the Centre for Dalinian Studies at the Dalí Foundation, Jean-Michel Bouhours, curator of the National Museum of Modern Art/Industrial Creation Centre in Paris, and Thierry Dufrêne, professor of contemporary art history at the University of Paris West Nanterre, Jean-Hubert Martin as curator, former director at the National Museum of Modern Art in Paris.

The show contains more than two hundred pieces, including paintings, sculptures and drawings. Dalí is also presented as a pioneering in performance art and happenings and author of ephemeral works. Some results show his participation in the field of photography, theater and film. It is a selection of works from the collections of the Dalí Foundation in Figueres, the Reina Sofia Museum in Madrid and the Dalí Museum in Florida, the three major organizers of the retrospective together with the Centre Pompidou.