Marcel BROODTHAERS

"Fiction captures the truth and at the same time what it hides."

 

The art of Marcel Broodthaers anticipates reflection on the relationship between the work of art, the museum, and the public. His work is punctuated by poetry, the publication of articles and art reviews in Belgian magazines, and also by cinema. His models were Mallarmé and Magritte, who had a profound influence on him. Thus, like Magritte, Marcel Broodthaers plays with the language he uses as a visual tool. What is a work of art? This is the question that runs through all of his creations. His work is a sham: using hybrid devices of objects and words, by extending language, Broodthaers shed light on the manufacturing of meaning in the 20th century and the myths that perpetuate it.