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6/8/2005

Rene' Magritte

Fondation Beyeler, Basel

The Beyeler Foundation presents a broad retrospective of the great Belgian artist René Magritte (1898-1967). Magritte regularly undermined the "rules" attached to the representation of the visible world and slyly drew attention to the autonomous reality of art.

Seeing, according to Magritte, is what matters. He referred to a form of understanding beyond the confines of any verbal explanation. Unfortunately, for a large proportion of the public, seeing is not sufficient. The artist reflected that people often see things hastily and think about them carelessly, having been educated in disciplines and traditions in which words represent ideas and have a dominant function. This left the realm of revelation beyond words neglected and unexplored. The painter was very aware of words and of the dubious status they had acquired and this consciousness is evident in both his writing and painting.

Invitingly accessible on the first glance, Magritte's works are brilliant visual traps, seeking to liberate conventional vision from its obscurity. He describes these efforts as a natural need to react to the stereotype phenomena of everyday life in a way contrary to expectation.

Beyeler Foundation
101, Baselstrasse, Riehen, Basel, Basel-Stadt 4125, Switzerland
Venue open
10am-6pm

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