Alice Cooper's Brain Part of Salvador Dali Exhibition

The exhibition is scheduled to run through the first week of January next year and is focused on Dal�'s art and his influence on artists such as Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein and Willem de Kooning. And it has catalyzed a multi-media reunion between the rock legend and his "brain."

One of the exhibition's highlights, among the over one hundred works on display, is the Dal�-conceived piece entitled "First Cylindric Chromo-Hologram Portrait of Alice Cooper's Brain" created in April of 1973, which depicts a three-dimensional Alice Cooper who sat for the artist wearing two million dollars worth of jewelry including a tiara and necklace while holding a statuette of Venus De Milo as if it were a microphone. A plaster sculpture of Alice's brain, topped by a chocolate �clair covered in ants, another Dal� oeuvre, was placed behind the cross-legged rock star and the set-up was documented by Dal� using (then) cutting-edge hologram technology.

It was in February of that year that Dal� met Alice in New York and the two hit it off quite surreally. According to Alice, Dal� introduced himself with great flourish declaring "I am the great and grand Dal�!" to which the intrepid rocker responded "Hi, I`m Alice Cooper." The hologram's creation caused a sensation and was unveiled at a press conference at which Alice was asked, "What do you think of this?" Alice answered, "I haven`t understood one word he`s said since I met him." Dal� jumped in immediately, thereafter, exclaiming, "Perfect! Confusion is the greatest form of communication."

At the request of the David Brenneman, director of Collections and Exhibitions for the High Museum of Art in Atlanta, Alice Cooper was recruited to lend his voice and recollections and observations of "the great and glorious Dal�" to the Museum's Dal� audio tour. Through the facilities of his United Stations syndicated Nights With Alice Cooper radio show, Alice recorded his commentary that was sent to the Museum for inclusion in the Dal� exhibition audio tour offered to visitors.