Magritte Museum, Brussels presents an exhibition dedicated to Magritte and Contemporary art, as part of the festivities of Magritte Year that commenced in May earlier this year. While the exhibition does not intend to be as scholarly as the one at MoMA in New York, where Magritte’s work was already studied alongside Andy Warhol and Jasper Johns, Michel Draguet, director of the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium, says it will be a “nice initiation.”René Magritte passed away on August 15, 1967 in Schaerbeek. “This unpretentious man has achieved an ambition that he would never have dared to impose. He has painted himself in the soul of our nation,” said Jeroen Overstijns, Managing Director of WPG Belgium, at the launch of the Magritte Year in May.Magritte believed that the word “dream” wrongly described his paintings. He had his own definition of surrealism: “The surreal is the reality that has not been separated from its mystery.” Marginalized by the French surrealists, Magritte could count on his compatriots, poets, and philosophers. He wanted to prove that images are equal to words, that they can also express feelings and ideas.The exhibition will be on view from October 13, 2017, at the Magritte Museum Brussels, where works will be showcased in addition to the museum’s permanent collection of over 230 paintings, noted Le Figaro.
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