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RENÉ MAGRITTE (1889-1967) L'usage de la parole VI, courtesy of Luxembourg & Dayan
Exhibition
René Magritte (Or: The Rule of Metaphor)
27 Feb 2018 – 12 May 2018
Regular hours
- Tuesday
- 11:00 – 17:00
- Wednesday
- 11:00 – 17:00
- Thursday
- 11:00 – 17:00
- Friday
- 11:00 – 17:00
- Saturday
- 12:00 – 16:00
Cost of entry
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Address
- 2 Savile Row
- London
- W1S 3PA
- United Kingdom
Travel Information
- Picadilly
Event map
From 27 February, Luxembourg & Dayan presents René Magritte (Or: The Rule of Metaphor). The exhibition is entirely dedicated to the development of Magritte's word- pictures during his years in Paris between 1927-1930.
About
To produce a metaphor is to borrow a semantic unit - be it work, or image - from its habitual context and trans- pose it into a new one. Red lips become ‘cherry’, the night is a ‘curtain’, and the world a ‘stage’. This transition, Aristotle tells us, can be made “from genus to species, from species to genus, or in the form of analogy.” But what if a word was to replace a picture, or vice versa?
