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Reproduction forbidden. This title incites curiosity. The surrealist painter Magritte (Lessen, 1898 – Schaarbeek, 1967) searched for the unexpected in daily life and thus manipulated the expectations of the spectator. The painter has not painted an unimaginable dream world, but a picture that places question marks against what is real - and what seems real. This mirror image continues to fascinate. What is it all about exactly? We see an eccentric rich Englishman Edward James. But he is looking in the mirror, or is he standing in front of a painting? The refection of the book on the mantelpiece suggests the former. At the same time, the man is doubled instead of mirrored, so the thing can’t be a mirror. But it isn’t really a mirror anyway, because it is a painted mirror, a painting. And a painting is something that shows the world in the way that the painter wishes it to be seen.
Channels: Contemporary Art
Artists: Ewoud van RijnRené Magritte
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