Magritte. La ligne de vie

In 1938, René Magritte gives a lecture at the KMSKA on his vision of reality. He discourses on the origins and development of his art, as well as the history of the surrealist movement in Belgium. Under the title La ligne de vie (The Life Line), this lecture, the second after the one at the International Exhibition of Surrealism in London, was the most important Magritte ever gave on his work.

In the exhibition Magritte. La ligne de vie, the world-famous Surrealist acts as his own curator, as it were. Among other things, you will discover a selection of works that were also highlighted during the lecture. The exhibition also delves deeper into Magritte as a connecting figure between surrealism in Antwerp and Brussels. In this Antwerp connection we meet surrealists such as Marcel Mariën and Léo Dohmen.

“The Ladder of Fire gave me the privilege of experiencing what the first men felt who made fire by rubbing two stones together. In turn, I made fire from a sheet of paper, an egg and a key.”
- René Magritte, from his lecture La ligne de vie.

It is no coincidence that this exhibition runs parallel to the one on Marthe Donas. Both exhibitions represent two different directions within modernism. And although Magritte also initially experiments with abstraction, he nevertheless rejects this kind of painting and chooses his own path. He wants to paint ideas. 

The exhibition is a project by the KMSKA in collaboration with the Fondation René Magritte.

Would you also like to visit the exhibition Donas, Archipenko & La Section d’Or after your visit to the Magritte. La ligne de vie exhibition? For the visit to the Magritte exhibition, you should allow approximately one hour. You can select both time slots when booking your tickets.

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