Karl Buchberg & Jodi Hauptman, MATISSE'S CUT-OUTS – Matisse Symposium
Channel: Barnes Foundation
Date: 21/11/2016

The Museum of Modern Art's 2014 exhibition Henri Matisse: The Cut-Outs was sparked by the ambitious conservation of the room-sized cut-out The Swimming Pool. What did this deep dive into Matisse's materials and techniques reveal? A curatorial/conservation collaboration, this presentation addresses the environmental, temporal, and compositional aspects of Matisse's cut-outs.

Karl Buchberg is senior conservator at the Museum of Modern Art, New York. He organized the exhibition Henri Matisse: The Cut-Outs. He is the author of "Seurat: Materials and Techniques" in the MoMA catalogue, Georges Seurat: The Drawings and he was part of the curatorial team for the exhibition Edgar Degas: A Strange New Beauty. 

Jodi Hauptman is senior curator in the Department of Drawings and Prints at the Museum of Modern Art, New York. She curated Henri Matisse: The Cut-Outs; Georges Seurat: The Drawings; Beyond the Visible: The Art of Odilon Redon; and, most recently, Edgar Degas: A Strange New Beauty. 

Inspired by the Foundation’s catalogue Matisse in the Barnes Foundation (http://bit.ly/MatisseBarnes), edited by Yve-Alain Bois and published in December 2015, this symposium brings together leading international scholars to examine Matisse in the context of the history of modernism.