Marcel Marien (1920-1993)
Marcel Mariën (Antwerpen, 1920 - Brussel, 1993) was een surrealistische kunstenaar. De in Antwerpen geboren (maar Franstalige) Belg was een dichter, fotograaf, essayist, schrijver van pamfletten en korte verhalen, toneelschrijver, filmmaker, uitgever en maker van collages, assemblages en surrealistische foto's.
Mariën is one of the most intriguing and elusive figures in the Belgian wing of the Surrealist movement. He was not only an artist, but also a publisher, a bookseller, a sailor, a journalist in China and an elaborate Surrealist prankster.(Wikipedia) In 1937, he first encountered the surrealist paintings of René Magritte in exhibition and – inspired by André Breton’s Surrealist Manifesto - traveled to Brussels to seek out the artist. He soon began corresponding with Magritte, who was 20 years his senior, and was warmly welcomed into the close-knit Belgian Surrealist group. Within a year, he had his own work included in the Surrealist group exhibition, Surrealist Objects and Poems, in London. In 1959, in a further attempt to challenge traditional attitudes, he produced and directed the film, L'Imitation du cinema.[2] A combination of sexual and religious imagery, it caused a scandal in Belgium and was banned in France. Even with the support of the Kinsey Institute, it proved impossible to have the film shown in the United States. Mariën and his fellow Surrealists loved making jokes. In 1953, Mariën went to the Belgian coast, where he distributed false bank notes printed by René and Paul Magritte.[4] In 1962, the joke was on Magritte when Mariën and Leo Dohmen produced a tract, “La Grande Baisse”, to coincide with a major retrospective of Magritte’s work in Knokke. Presented as written by Magritte himself, it announced drastic discounts on the artist’s major paintings and offered the chance to order them in different sizes.
Even leading Surrealists, amongst them André Breton, failed to grasp the joke and praised Magritte for this undertaking. Magritte was furious when he found out and the 25-year friendship between Magritte and Mariën was over.
Werken van Marien zijn oa. opgenomen in de collectie van Tate modern Londen. Zijn bekendste werk is de bril met 1 oog en 2 oren.
| Technique | Offset |
| Dimensions | 61 x 41 cm (h x w) |
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