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Dali Exhibit Opens in Mexico

MEXICO CITY (EFE).- The work and life of Spanish surrealism genius Salvador Dali, who died 21 years ago, is being remembered in the southeastern Mexican city of Merida with an exhibition of 93 of the artist’s engravings. “Dali en Merida. Las miradas del sueño” (Dali in Merida: Views of a Dream) will be held at Merida’s Olimpo Cultural Center, where the public will be able to enter free until March 23, municipal culture director Roger Metri told Efe. Present at the ceremony to open the exhibit on Saturday were Merida Mayor Cesar Bojorquez Zapata and the director of the Museo de Artes del Grabado a la Estampa Digital in La Coruña, Rocio Hermo, among other figures, Metri said. Present at the ceremony to open the exhibit on Saturday were Merida Mayor Cesar Bojorquez Zapata and the director of the Museo de Artes del Grabado a la Estampa Digital in La Coruña, Rocio Hermo, among other figures, Metri said. The works come from the artistic collection of the La Coruña art museum’s foundat