Rude Magritte drawings to go on show NEWS
Six rare Rene Magritte drawings that are considered erotic and shocking are to be shown in Tate Liverpool, but are they best suited to a separate room to spare the faint-hearted?
A loan from a very private collection of rare drawings have gone on exhibition at Tate Liverpool and are causing quite the controversy. Never shown in Britain before, the drawings are rather explicit in content, including flying penises and tiny men walking towards enormous vaginas.
Rene Magritte drew the pieces in the 1940s for an illustrated edition of erotic novella Madame Eduarda, which was never published. The drawings remained in the Magritte house and were discovered in a bin bag full of papers cleared from the building after his wife's passing.
The drawings are causing some troubles for Tate Liverpool as they deliberate whether the drawings should be shown along with the rest of the artist's more famous and less offensive work.
'We might make them a little boudoir of their own,' said Christoph Grunenberg, director of Tate Liverpool and joint curator of the most comprehensive exhibition of Magritte's work staged in Britain. 'We don't want to cordon them off or put them behind a curtain, but we don't want to force everyone who comes to the show to walk right into them.'
The gallery had a similar situation in 2008 when explicit images in the Gustav Klimt exhibition were displayed in a seperate room.
'We want to allow people to avoid them if they wish, but we think most of our visitors will find them very interesting,' Grunenberg said.
Rene Magritte: The Pleasure Principle exhibition is at Tate Liverpool from 24 June to 16 October.
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