Excelsior / MEXICO CITY, 23 febrero.-Over fifty works of Belgian Paul Delvaux (1897-1994) on display at the Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, to present the most essential of a neo-impressionist, expressionist and surrealist rtista work.
The exhibition brings together more than fifty works from public and private collections in Belgium thematic route, deserving special mention of Nicole and Pierre Ghêne in which this project is based, for which yielded 38 pieces .
The artistic director of the Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, Guillermo Solana said that the secret lies in their spaces Delvaux, in its scenarios, and stressed that his work integrated into the museum space and the brothel.
It is a sign that aims to show the concentrated Delvaux, the essential Delvaux, and more than fifty works of a prolific artist who also had a long life exposed, “he said.
The exhibition curator, Laura Neve, stressed that the most important theme of the work of the Belgian painter is to women, which is demonstrated by the “reclining Venus”, a recurring motif that refers to your unconditional love women.
He stressed that “reclining Venus” is to represent various facets of the work of Belgian, and in fact, Delvaux “was obsessed with all things feminine.”
After experimenting with realism, Fauvism and Expressionism, Delvaux discovered the work of Magritte and Giorgio de Chirico.
Surrealism became the most decisive revelation for the artist, though he himself never reaches properly be considered a surrealist painter.
A Delvaux more interested in poetic and mysterious atmosphere of the movement that his iconoclastic struggle, which, from the 1930s, created a unique and original universe, free from the rules of logic universal, and which lies between classicism and modernity, between dream and reality.
His protagonists, woman trains, passing skeletons and architecture, are part of this universe , being isolated, self-absorbed, almost sleepwalking, which are located in scenarios often nocturnal and seemingly unrelated; the only link between them is the artist’s own experiences
At the exhibition the five major themes of his iconography are discussed from the point of view of love and death: “reclining Venus”;. “Twice (couples, mirrors)”; “Architectures”; “Seasons” and “The frame of life”.
Introducing “Paul #Delvaux: A Walk with Love and Death” with Laura Neve ofMuseedixelles andguillermosolana pic.twitter.com/t7ciMU3kxd
– Museo Thyssen (museothyssen ) February 23, 2015
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