PARIS, FRANCE.- Musée Maillol presents Magritte - All In Paper. The number of retrospectives dedicated to Magritte's work has multiplied over the last fifteen years, and it is now internationally recognized as one of the essential moments of 20th century art. This exhibition is different. On the one hand it offers an aspect of his work that is hardly known letters, sketches, etchings on paper, preparatory drawings, gouache studies, squared preparations, gouaches taken from paintings, collages... On the other hand, the exhibition represents an original insight into the making of a subversive mind. This is a true retrospective of his work with its traditional images and its unknown aspects.

Magritte considers the collage as an essential component of modernist culture. It introduces a break in theprinciple itself of representation. But, while it represents a fundamental aspect in Magrittte's procedure, it has also changed its language radically. Here we reach a major point in Surrealist poetry. From the beginning, drawing has been an important element in the research Magritte carried out and covers all of his work. From the etchings to the sketches introduced in the letters, he built the image while testing the idea according to which all drawings are a story in action. By showing how Magritte used the supports and techniques we find his creative process. From the lettter to the image, the laboratory of the work functions according to the example of a mind in perpetual movement.