{"id":9636,"date":"2004-12-31T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2004-12-30T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.salvador-dali.org\/fundacio-dali\/noticia\/avui-ha-quedat-instal-lada-la-gran-cullera\/"},"modified":"2025-06-26T10:20:21","modified_gmt":"2025-06-26T08:20:21","slug":"the-big-spoon-installed-today","status":"publish","type":"noticia","link":"https:\/\/www.salvador-dali.org\/en\/dali-foundation\/news\/the-big-spoon-installed-today\/","title":{"rendered":"The &#8220;Big Spoon&#8221; installed today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Montse Aguer, Dal\u00ed Centenary Commissioner, Joan Manuel Sevillano, Dal\u00ed Foundation Managing Director, Josep Play\u00e0, Dal\u00ed Centenary Commissioner for Figueres City Hall and a goodly representation from Figueres City Council were all in attendance today for inauguration of the final site of the <em>Big Spoon<\/em> on Ronda Firal road by the Mayor of Figueres, Joan Armangu\u00e9.<\/p>\n<p>The Mayor and Vice-president of the Foundation suggests that the A-2 roadway access that runs through Figueres from the Rally-Sud (the site of the cypress tree designed by \u00d2scar Tusquets and taking inspiration from the Dalinian oeuvre) to Avinguda Perpiny\u00e0 (location of the dome made by some of the city\u2019s students) be named Avinguda Salvador Dal\u00ed after the artist.<\/p>\n<p>These two sculptural features \u2014 together with the Grup 69 mural in Ordis square, the anomorphism situated on the lower section of the Rambla promenade and designed by Medina-Campeny and this <em>Big Spoon<\/em> \u2013 form part of the city\u2019s homage to Dal\u00ed with five installations that leave a highly visible and permanent reminder of Dal\u00ed Centenary in the city of his birth. Figueres had until now no street dedicated to its artistic genius, except for the square in front of the museum, where he shared his name with that of Gala. In the course of the event, Montse Aguer and Josep Play\u00e0 noted some of the main features of the 38-metre-long spoon, created on the occasion of the exhibition at the Centre Pompidou in Paris in 1979.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Montse Aguer, Dal\u00ed Centenary Commissioner, Joan Manuel Sevillano, Dal\u00ed Foundation Managing Director, Josep Play\u00e0, Dal\u00ed Centenary Commissioner for Figueres City Hall and a goodly representation from Figueres City Council were all in attendance today for inauguration of the final site of the Big Spoon on Ronda Firal road by the Mayor of Figueres, Joan Armangu\u00e9. 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