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A leading 20th century poet and a great traveller, Henri Michaux made displacement - both real and imaginary - the central theme of his work. Without ever abandoning his written work, in the 1930s, attracted by surrealist painting and the works of Paul Klee and Giorgio De Chirico, he began to draw and paint regularly. Interested in Eastern cultures, he developed a style of painting made up of calligraphic strokes and signs as if it were a particular alphabet. This can be seen in this set of drawings made with Indian ink in the 1950s, a period in which he painted more and more and wrote less and less. Michaux understood aesthetic production as a ritual experience, an action which, through the repetition of certain gestures and movements, creates a different time, untied from the logic that governs everyday life. Without any intention of overcoming the real, he chose to invent other places. They were, as he himself described them, "ways of dreaming".