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Luxembourg + Co., New York, will open Ren茅 Magritte: The Phantom Landscape, an exhibition that explores Magritte鈥檚 unconventional engagement with the genre of landscape painting in his work. The show will bring together a group of important paintings by the Belgian master, including loans from major institutions such as The Museum of Modern Art, New York, and others.. In addition, the display will include a site-specific response to Magritte鈥檚 work by contemporary artist Laure Prouvost.

Typically associated with romantic or naturalist tendencies, the notion of landscape painting is rarely discussed within the scholarship of Magritte鈥檚 oeuvre despite the genre鈥檚 significance to his practice. This is largely due to the manner in which Magritte depicted landscape in his paintings 鈥� with technical 鈥渄ryness of handling鈥� for one, but also by conjunction (or substitution) of landscape motifs with textual elements.

To unfold the principles and underlying ideas behind Magritte鈥檚 engagement with the genre, the exhibition Ren茅 Magritte: The Phantom Landscape explores three principal groups of paintings: The first, subtitled 鈥楩rames of Reference鈥�, exploring cases in which Magritte depicts a picture of landscape inside another picture.