Di Donna and Ben Brown Fine Arts are proud to announce Magritte and Les Lalanne: In the Mind’s Garden, a major exhibition opening October 8 at Di Donna’s Madison Avenue gallery. The exhibition brings together the visionary worlds of René Magritte, François-Xavier and Claude Lalanne (known collectively as Les Lalanne) - artists who did not merely depict the natural world but reimagined it as a fertile landscape of poetic foresight and surreal transformation.
In the Mind’s Garden is the first exhibition to place Magritte and Les Lalanne in direct dialogue. Featuring over 50 works of art - including paintings, works on paper, and sculptures - drawn from important private collections, it invites viewers into a world where nature is not fixed but fluid - shaped by vision, memory, and invention. In this garden, the boundaries between the natural and the surreal dissolve, and imagination is the ground from which all things grow. The exhibition explores the idea of artistic perception as a generative force. For these artists, to see is not to replicate the visible, but to anticipate and reveal the unseen - to draw forth new realities from the raw material of the world.
Magritte and Les Lalanne: In the Mind’s Garden will be on view from October 8 through December 13.The exhibition will be accompanied by a fully illustrated exhibition catalogue.
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