Recent travels took me to The Dalí Museum in Florida, where for the first time the work of Salvador Dalí is paired with that of his contemporary, Alberto Giacometti. The exhibition explores their shared fascination with surrealism, the subconscious, and the human form—but it was Giacometti’s sculptures that held me. Those elongated figures, textured, and a study in loneliness. And then… another favorite, Alexander Calder at Selby Botanical Gardens. His architecturally commanding yet improbably delicate masses—bold, bright, unapologetic in color—standing in lush Florida light. Steel that doesn’t feel like steel. Two very different sculptural languages. One introspective and solitary. One expansive and spatial. Both extraordinary.
