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Magritte
Le grand siècle, 1954
René Magritte (1898–1967) è fra gli artisti più noti A cura di Attraverso più di novanta dipinti, documenti, fotografie, film, la mostra Olio su tela
del secolo scorso. I suoi dipinti, caratterizzati Xavier Canonne Magritte. La Ligne de vie ripercorre tutta la carriera del grande Oil on canvas
da uno stile realistico che contrasta con ciò che
viene rappresentato – uomini senza volto in
2018 e Julie Waseige maestro del surrealismo belga. Il titolo dell’esposizione rimanda alla
conferenza omonima che l’artista tenne nel 1938 ad Anversa.
Kunstmuseum Gelsenkirchen
La plaine de l’air, 1940
René Magritte (1898–1967) is one of the best- Curated by Through more than ninety paintings, documents, photographs and
known artists of the last century. His paintings, Xavier Canonne films, the exhibition Magritte. La Ligne de vie (The Life Line) covers
characterised by a realistic style that contrasts and Julie Waseige the entire career of the great Belgian Surrealist. The exhibition’s title
with what it represents – faceless men in is a reference to the conference the artist held in Antwerp in 1938
bowler hats, stones hovering in the sky, shoes Project coordinator under this name. At the conference, one of the few occasions on
that are transformed into feet – have now for MASI which he publicly expressed himself, Magritte retraced the birth and
become a part of everyone’s visual culture. Guido Comis evolution of his work, mentioned the artists who inspired him the
Magritte was born into a modest Belgian most and revealed the techniques he used to obtain images with a
family. From 1916 he attended the Fine Arts In collaboration with “disturbing poetic effect”.
Academy in Brussels and made his début with Amos Rex Museum, MASI’s exhibition picks the thread of the conference up. The exhibi-
works inspired by the Futurist avant-garde and Helsinki tion begins with the artist’s early works and continues by document-
Cubist movements. The illustration of a ing his first Surrealist creations, inspired by Giorgio de Chirico and
painting by De Chirico revealed a new way of Max Ernst, whose works are also on display, going on to the great
painting to him and allowed him to develop his masterpieces of his maturity. Visitors thus discover Magritte’s sourc-
own unique style. Despite the paradoxical and es of inspiration while appreciating the absolute originality of his
often desecratory character of his works, pictorial inventions.
Magritte led a very regular life, practically The exhibition is not limited to works produced before 1938, the year
incarnating the stereotype of the ordinary man of the conference, but applies the framework suggested by the artist
who appears in so many of his images. to reveal how the approach to creation he described in the conference
allowed him to find ever-new sources of inspiration and continue crea-
ting extraordinarily inventive and poetic images for the rest of his life.
Exhibitions
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Vera Trachsel
Premio Manor Ticino 2018
La Ligne de vie
Surrealismo
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Combined guided tours 17–25 years old Opening hours Towards No Earthly Pole
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Le château des Pyrénées, 1962 La présence d’esprit 1960
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