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Probably it is not the least of the unfortunately symptomatic features of our age to disqualify something apparently unappealable with the word surreal. After all, Surrealism, heir of Romanticism, was probably the greatest contemporary revolution, a movement whose greatest ambition has been to free mankind from the crust of custom and the oppression of labor, order, discipline and values ??castrating bourgeoisie to, through a magical feeling of the sacred poetic existence, give you access to real life through things like the unconscious, desire, humor, irreverence, chance, art and dreams.
Nothing sums up better the movement´s core belief than perhaps the famous words of the poet Paul Eluard “there are other worlds, but they are in this one”, and the efforts to help break the absolutist principle of reality imposed by the world of rational basis conventions, an Aristotelian conscious plane used by the bourgeois world that emerged from the Second Industrial Revolution to exercise bloody dictatorship based on production, income and money in order to access the “here and now” in the immediacy of the moment, a disturbing and abysmal life but infinitely more beautiful and repleted, ultimately leading to a life worthy of that name at least.
Ironically, the paradox in Surrealism is of course essential , few artists have contributed so much through a series of indelible images that form an essential part of world culture and contemporary collective unconscious, as to the subversion and disruption of the reality principle tax, noting the cracks and crevices in the wall that breathes life into that that we see, and among other thing is what the poetic spirit wants and desires, just like the work of a Belgian painter of an unsurpassed humble grey clerk appearance named Rene Magritte (1898 – 1967).
So indeed those who have seen it have left an indelible mark on the pipe that is not a pipe, the man looking at himself in a mirror has only his neck and back reflecting, the glass of water in perfect balance on top of an open umbrella, the broken glass fragments which have fallen to pieces on the landscape where you see the other side of the window, the lovers who kiss their heads completely covered by sheets, the constant overlapping of opposite planes (day / night, in / out, reality (?) and representation in his paintings, as recurring disturbing sexual overtones in his work
The Vienna Albertina honors the quiet subversive power of the creator of these images, which remains intact, (http://www.albertina.at/) presenting on February 26 more than 100 extraordinary works of the Magritte production .
Focusing on little-known facets ofhis life and the works of the Belgian artist (including advertising works, collages and films) and placing a particular emphasis on his relationship with pop culture, this is hardly an exhibition that will leave you indifferent if you go to visit it when renting apartments in Vienna
Translated by: Marc
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