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Monday, April 11, 2005
Rene Magritte
BA-CA Kunstforum: 06.04.05-24.07.05
L’Homme au chapeau melon, 1964, oil on canvas, private collection, New York, © VBK Wien 2005
This exhibition, the first Magritte retrospective in Austria, gives an overview of the entire oeuvre of the great Belgian surrealist. Magritte’s magical-conceptual images from the 1920s through to the 1960s are used to illustrate both his dialogue with Dada and his key role as an inexhaustible source of inspiration for art after 1945, including Pop-Art and Concept Art. Major works from international museums and numerous private collections shed new light on the artist, whose continuing importance is underlined by contemporary artistic trends. ...