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René Magritte – Der Schlüssel der Träume

Aug 7–Nov 27, 2005

The Fondation Beyeler is showing a large retrospective of the work of René Magritte, one of the most intriguing artists of the modern era. This is the first large-scale Magritte exhibition to be held in Switzerland for many years. It was organized in collaboration with the Kunstforum Wien, the Fondation Magritte, and Steingrim Laursen, former director of the Louisiana Museum near Copenhagen. The exhibition presents a selection of about 95 works from all periods of Magritte’s career – many of his now-legendary images, but also paintings from private collections that have rarely been on public view before.

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Catalogue «René Magritte – The Key to Dreams»

René Magritte described his Surrealist paintings in Terms of «dreams' that are intended not to make you sleep, but to wake you up.« To define the artist's dream-like Images as imaginary worlds would be too simplistic. René Magritte: The Key to Dreams documents a comprehensive retrospective of the art of the enigmatic Belgian Surrealist that was previously on view in Vienna at the BA-CA Kunstforum.

The catalogue is published by Ludion, Ghent. It contains essays by Steingrim Laursen, Siegfried Gohr and Michel Draguet, and a comprehensive plate section with notes on the works by Evelyn Benesch and Ulf Küster. The volume comprises 204 pages with 125 full-color illustrations,.

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