Free
About the conversation
Together with Katharina Van Cauteren, curator of Saints, Sinners, Lovers and Fools, Chloé M. Pelletier will talk about The Phoebus Foundation’s collection that will be on display all summer long at the MMFA and bring together works by Hans Memling, Peter Paul Rubens, Anthony van Dyck and Michaelina Wautier, among many others. The speakers will discuss various themes brought out in the exhibition, such as artistic reform, societal mores of the day, the art market and globalization.
About the speakers
Katharina Van Cauteren studied art history at KU Leuven University. She earned her doctorate with a thesis on the Brussels painter Hendrick De Clerck (about 1560-1630) and his role as court propagandist for Archduke Albert and the Infanta Isabella. From 2012 to 2014, Van Cauteren worked at the Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp as a collections researcher and exhibition curator. During that time, she took Jan Van Eyck to the Netherlands and Rubens to India, while marking the 350th anniversary of Antwerp’s Academy of Arts alongside fashion designer Walter Van Beirendonck. Since 2014, she has been the Chief of Staff at The Phoebus Foundation, where she has curated major exhibitions such as The Birth of Capitalism, the Golden Age of Flanders (Ghent, 2016), Rooted (Ghent, 2017), Vossen (Waasland, 2018), Lace Is More! (Aalst, 2019) and The Bold and the Beautiful (Antwerp, 2020).
Chloé M. Pelletier is Curator of European Art (before 1800) at the MMFA. Originally from Texas, she has held positions in universities and prominent museums in the United States, including the National Gallery of Art, in Washington, D.C., and the Art Institute of Chicago. Prior to joining the MMFA, she was Curatorial Associate in the Art Institute’s Department of Painting and Sculpture of Europe. She has, among other projects, contributed to exhibitions on the sculpture of Antonio Canova and Camille Claudel. Most recently, she curated Spotlight: Women Artists in the Early Modern European Art Collection at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts. Pelletier holds a Master’s and a PhD from the University of Chicago specialized in Italian Renaissance painting with secondary fields in environmental studies and arts of the early modern Atlantic world. Her essays and articles have notably been published in the exhibition catalogues Camille Claudel (Art Institute of Chicago and the Getty) and Ornament and Illusion: Carlo Crivelli of Venice (Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum) as well as in the journal postmedieval.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Event location: Maxwell Cummings Auditorium, 1379-A, Sherbrooke Street West
Language: Simultaneous French interpretation will be offered free of charge at the lecture.
Please note that unclaimed reserved seats will be made available to other participants.
