Symposium | Degas: A New Vision | NGV International

Edgar Degas , Rehearsal hall at the Opéra, rue Le Peletier (Le foyer de la danse à l'Opéra de la rue Le Peletier) 1872, oil on canvas, 32.7 x 46.3 cm, Lemoisne 298 Musée d'Orsay, Paris (RF 1977) © RMN-Grand Palais (musée d'Orsay) / Hervé Lewandowski

Edgar Degas , Rehearsal hall at the Opéra, rue Le Peletier (Le foyer de la danse à l’Opéra de la rue Le Peletier) 1872, oil on canvas, 32.7 x 46.3 cm, Lemoisne 298
Musée d’Orsay, Paris (RF 1977) © RMN-Grand Palais (musée d’Orsay) / Hervé Lewandowski

As part of the the NGV’s winter exhibition on Edgar Degas the gallery is hosting a symposium with international experts on the artist.

From his paintings of ballerinas to the social world of Parisian nightlife, Degas’ works demonstrate great technical, conceptual and expressive skill and reveal his openness to experiment with a range of mediums.

Date: 2-5pm, Friday 24th June 2016

Venue: Clemenger BBDO Auditorium, NGV International

Bookings required - book online here. Tickets $35 A / $28 M / $30 C (includes light refreshment)

Speakers

Henri Loyrette, Exhibition Curator

Henri Loyrette is a French arts administrator and historian who served as director of the Louvre Museum in Paris from 2001 to 2013 and is now president of Admical, a nonprofit organization involved in corporate philanthropy. Loyrette received a master’s degree in history and studied in Rome at the Academy of France (1975–77). Upon his return to France in 1978, he was appointed curator at the Orsay Museum, where he remained for 23 years, becoming director in 1994. Loyrette’s writings include books on Degas, Gustave Eiffel, and other 19th-century artists, as well as on Marcel Proust’s views on modern art.

Ann Hoenigswald, Senior Conservator of Paintings, National Gallery of Art, Washington

Ann Hoenigswald is senior conservator of paintings at the National Gallery of Art. Since joining the Gallery in 1977 she has worked on paintings from the 13th through the 20th centuries, but her particular focus has been on paintings from the second half of the 19th century and early modern works.

She was awarded the CASVA Paired Fellowship in Conservation and the History of Art and was an invited museum scholar at the Getty Center. She was also a visiting conservator at the Courtauld Institute in London. In addition to treating paintings she is particularly interested in artists’ materials and techniques with a particular focus on the process of painting. Much of her work has been in collaboration with art historians and conservation scientist and she looks carefully at paintings in the larger context of an artists’ oeuvre.

Forthcoming publications are on the issue of finish in Degas’ paintings and 19th century ground preparations. She has also recently produced an essay in the catalogue for the NGA’s Degas/Cassatt exhibition and has published widely on Picasso’s hidden images, Van Gogh, Malevich, matte paint surfaces, 19th-century oil sketches and plein air equipment, and the history of restoration.

Gary Tinterow, Director, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston

Gary Tinterow has been Director of the Museum Of Fine Arts in Houston since 2012. Prior to this role Tinterow served as curator of European paintings at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York for twenty years before becoming curator in charge of the newly formed department of Nineteenth-Century, Modern and Contemporary Art in 2004 and chairman of that department in 2008. He has organized dozens of acclaimed exhibitions, accompanied by significant publications, many of which were mounted in collaboration with, and travelled to, major museums around the world. A number of these shows were among the best-attended exhibitions ever presented at the Metropolitan, including Degas in 1988.

Dr Ted Gott, Senior Curator, International Art, NGV

Dr Ted Gott is Senior Curator of International Art at the National Gallery of Victoria. After studying at the University of Melbourne, the British Museum, Northwestern University and the Art Institute of Chicago, he previously worked at the Robert Holmes-à-Court Collection, Heide Museum of Modern Art and the National Gallery of Australia. He has curated and co-curated 25 exhibitions, including The Impressionists: Masterpieces from the Musée d’Orsay (2004), Kiss of the Beast: From Paris Salon to King Kong (2005), Modern Britain 1900-1960 (2007),Salvador Dalí: Liquid Desire (2009), Napoleon: Revolution to Empire(2012), Masterpieces from the Hermitage: The Legacy of Catherine the Great (2015) and is NGV curator of Degas: A New Vision.

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