Few months ago, at The Museum of Modern Art, there was an exhibition of Magritte's work. For those who were not lucky enough to go there, here is an interview of Anne Umland, the curator.
"To
Look at a Magritte painting and then to turn away again and look at
the world around you was to find that the world had been ordered and
there were no longer any ordinary things.
This
is the first major exhibition of Magritte's work to be held in New
York city in over a generation. And it is the very first ever
that focuses exclusivly on his break through surrealist years.
His
images of bowler hatted men or pipes either not pipes or
sky filled blue eyes have been so ubiquitously appropriated
by the advertising industry that Magritte's name has been left
behind, in some cases.
One
of the most famous of the pictures in the show from 1929 is called
the Treachery of images, « Ceci n'est pas une pipe ». And
I think, for me, that it is at the heart of Magritte's unique ability
to remind us that a picture of something is not the same as the
thing itself because at the way he juxtaposes frames, puts strange
things together he makes these clear images unclear, in terms of what
their meaning is, and manages to make that ordinary strange. More
often, you'll see that there is one picture per wall, because
I thought strongly in designing the space... because Magritte's
pictures are also clear and graphic and legible and because there is
something familiar about them that there is a tendency for people to
walk by and say « got it, that's a Magritte » and
then they move on. What is so great about him is that he's
really funny, like a lot of the time he is really making
these pictures... that's another thing that is just so great about them
… they're accessible, they're funny."
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