"Everything in my works comes from a sense of certainty that we belong, in fact, to an enigmatic universe."
A painter of Belgian origin, René Magritte is a master of enigmas. He is among the foremost figures of Surrealism alongside André Breton, Luis Buñuel, Salvador Dali, Paul Eluard and Joan Miró. Magritte is interested in the difference between objects and their representation. His work explores the mysteries of everyday life, sometimes using language or theatrical sets to stage bizarre objects. He includes familiar objects in his paintings and thus encourages us to change our perception of the simplest things, to involve our subjectivity as humans. Magritte develops a pictorial alphabet comprising recurring motifs: the apple, the bird, the man with the bowler hat, or fragmented bodies. His images are often hidden behind or in other images, combining two possible reading levels, the visible and the invisible.