Magritte

Text by:   Nicholas Chambers, Xavier Canonne, Natalie Dupêcher, Julie Waseige
Edited by:   Nicholas Chambers
Imprint:   Art Gallery of NSW
Country of Publication:   Australia
Dimensions:   Height: 287mm,  Width: 218mm, 
Weight:   1.360kg
ISBN:   9781741741728
ISBN 10:   1741741726
Pages:   240
Publication Date:   14 December 2024
Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active

Nicholas Chambers (ed) is senior curator of modern and contemporary international art at the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney. His exhibitions and associated publications at the Art Gallery include Hilma af Klint: the secret paintings (2021), Adman: Warhol before pop (2018) and Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera: from the Jacques and Natasha Gelman Collection (2016). Chambers has previously been the Milton Fine Curator of Art at the Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh; adjunct professor in the art history department at the University of Pittsburgh; and curator of contemporary international art at the Queensland Art Gallery I Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane. He has organised numerous exhibitions and contributed to publications for museums in Australia, Asia and North America. Xavier Canonne is director of the Museum of Photography in Charleroi and is a prominent art historian at the Université libre de Bruxelles. He holds a PhD in Art History and Archaeology from the Sorbonne, focusing on surrealism in Belgium from 1950 to 1993, and has been the editor of Marées de la Nuit, a publication specialising in surrealism and the avant-garde, since 1986. He has curated numerous exhibitions, notably Surrealism in Belgium (Fine Arts Museum, Mons, 2007), and has published extensively, including Surrealism in Belgium 1924-2000 (Mercatorfonds, Brussels, 2006) and René Magritte: the revealing image (Ludion, Brussels, 2017). Natalie Dupécher is the associate curator of modern art at the Menil Collection, Houston, where she oversees the museum's landmark holdings of historical surrealist art, in addition to mounting temporary exhibitions. She recently curated Janet Sobel: All-Over (2024) and Meret Oppenheim: My Exhibition (2021-23), which was co-organised by the Menil Collection, the Museum of Modern Art, and the Kunstmuseum Bern. She holds a PhD from Princeton University and a master's degree from the Williams College Graduate Program in the History of Art. Julie Waseige is an art historian and graduate of the Université libre de Bruxelles, specialising in surrealism in Belgium. From 2013 to 2016, she worked as a researcher at the Magritte Museum in Brussels. She has written books about René Magritte and curated international exhibitions including Magritte: Life Line (MASI, Lugano; Amos Rex, Helsinki, 2018-19) and Magritte: A Lab of Ideas, (Nordic Watercolour Museum, Skärhamn, 2022). Between May 2019 and June 2020, she was named the scientific director of the Marcel Marién Foundation. She was also a historical consultant for the documentary René Magritte: the master of mystery (Seven Doc Productions, France, 2023). Tai Spruyt is assistant curator of international art at the Art Gallery of New South Wales.