Detail

„Outputs from the earth growing into the sun a tree is a picture of secure happiness. In order to perceive, we have to be perfectly still like the tree. If we move it is the tree that becomes the spectator. “Let us be perfectly still then and look at a lonely tree standing amidst a vast landscape of dusk. However, nothing is at it seems. The tree opens up another unexpected world to our eyes. Three doors are set into its trunk, two of which are flung open and show a large ball and a bourgeois house with brightly lit windows respectively. René Magritte reshuffles measurements and pictorial elements. However, he does not follow the vain of arbitrary combination of the Paris surrealists but depicts an intrinsic affinity of things. He shows images of familiar things which are so combined that it ceases to be agreement with our naive and learned ideas. In the combination of seemingly complete opposites the mystery of the world reveals itself to the artist. Magritte’s paintings pose the question about the “when’s” and “where” of human existence. The poetic reconfiguration is attaint by the equation of objective reality with subjective perception. The transformation of reality into absurdity testifies at one and the same time to the manipulation of images which cannot objectively account for the visible reality.