Mariën, Marcel

MARIËN, Marcel Le bout de la pensée. S.d. Collage and object, 88.5 x 43.5; not signed or titled. In a wooden frame (partially detached). Elaborate work composed of many elements: surrounded by a frame of wallpaper depicting ears of wheat, with in the lower part an anatomical figurine in relief, and in the center, a large cartouche of strong gray cardboard unevenly cut seeming to emanate from the open mouth of the figurine, on which appear randomly about thirty photographic or chromolithographic elements and some strips bearing fragments of printed text: portraits of George Sand, Chopin, Napoleon, Pius XII, sphinx head, cow, salad, hands, cat, violin, anatomical elements... Reproduced under this title in "Sauter aux yeux", 1993, p. 108. Prov. Christian Bussy (1936-2019), Belgian journalist, essayist and literary critic, a great specialist of surrealism.