(AGENPARL) – mar 01 ottobre 2024 Reminder
Press Preview : new exhibitions
We are pleased to invite you to the press tour of the autumn exhibitions of the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium on Wednesday 9 October at 10.30 am.
Programme :
10.30 am: welcome
10.40 am: welcome speech by Kim Oosterlinck, General Director of the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium
10.50 am: guided tour in French or Dutch of the Drafts (https://fine-arts-museum.be/en/exhibitions/drafts) exhibition
by Véronique Bucken, curator of 15th and 16th century painting (up to 1550) and Dominique Marechal, honorary curator of 19th century painting, Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium.
11.30 am: guided tour in English of the exhibition Emily Mae Smith X René Magritte (https://fine-arts-museum.be/en/exhibitions/emily-mae-smith-x-rene-magritte) by Emily Mae Smith
12.15pm: press lunch, interviews & free visit of the new Point of View(s) (https://fine-arts-museum.be/en/exhibitions/point-of-view-s) dialogue tour and/or the new Old Drawings (https://fine-arts-museum.be/en/exhibitions/old-drawings) exhibition.
Address: rue de la Régence, 3, 1000 Brussels
drafts. From Rubens to Khnopff
How is a work of art created ? This is the question that the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium seek to answer with an exhibition devoted to sketching. At its heart is the creative gesture, presented here in all its forms.
Discover a fascinating journey through a hundred artworks, immersing visitors in the intimacy of artistic creation.
Step into the studio and try to grasp the very essence of the artwork, from the first idea sketched on a blank sheet, a wooden panel, or a piece of cardboard.
This immersive experience promises enriching discoveries, offering a new perspective on the behind-the-scenes of creations by iconic artists such as Rogier van der Weyden, Rembrandt, Rubens, Magritte, and many others.
Copyrights: Peter Paul Rubens [1577 -1640], L'enlèvement d'Hippodamie (détail) & Fernand Khnopff [1858-1921], Carnet de croquis (détail), Musées royaux des Beaux-Arts de Belgique, Bruxelles / photo : J. Geleyns – Art Photography
Press release & pictures (https://kmskbe.sharepoint.com/:f:/s/Down/EiZeV4g2sW1DlPJpY9aoFmUBuYWi78FlvoCSc3uc5FgzQw?e=AGAFag)
Emily Mae Smith X René Magritte
After Jean-Michel Folon’s six-month exhibition, it is now Emily Mae Smith’s turn, a painter born in 1979 in the United States (Austin, Texas), to settle at the Magritte Museum and establish a personal dialogue with the universe of the Belgian icon. The artist, who lives and works in New York (USA), will present around thirty works.
The connection between Emily Mae Smith’s paintings and those of René Magritte also shows a keen sense of image construction and a taste for visual trickery. Both artists have chosen to work with the figure of the “double-self,” the former with the man in a hat and the latter with broomstick, making each their self-portrait. Finally, their painting technique with well-defined contours, as well as the presence of text within the image or the “shown-hidden” aspect, give a strange dimension to their paintings, placing the viewer in a state of questioning, perplexity, but also contemplation.This exhibition is supported by Petzel, rodolphe janssen, Perrotin and the generous donors, Benjamin Khakshour, Justine Freeman and Robert Lowinger.
Press pictures (https://kmskbe.sharepoint.com/:f:/s/Down/EqnhGhpuaoRIgpbcHWf3hLgBWNgug9X8QMGQ78pM12mN4A?e=FPEcPF)
(https://kmskbe.sharepoint.com/:f:/s/Down/EqnhGhpuaoRIgpbcHWf3hLgBWNgug9X8QMGQ78pM12mN4A?e=FPEcPF) Copyright : René Magritte, The Domain of Arnheim (1962), RMFAB, Brussels / foto: J. Geleyns – Art Photography, © Ch. Herscovici, with his kind authorization c/o SABAM Belgium I Emily Mae Smith, Offering (2024) courtesy of the artist, rodolphe janssen, Brussels, and Petzel, New York
Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium
3 rue de la Régence – 1000 Brussels