Claire Salvo’s Magritte pays homage to the great surrealist René Magritte, reimagining his iconic painting Golconda across the unlikely surface of a U.S. dollar bill. Painted in acrylic, the work juxtaposes Magritte’s dreamlike repetition of bowler-hatted men floating through a pale sky with the formal rigidity of American currency - an intersection of the surreal and the systematic.

By bringing Magritte’s quietly absurd imagery into dialogue with the most ubiquitous symbol of material value, Salvo amplifies the artist’s philosophical play between reality and illusion. The dollar, an emblem of uniformity and exchange, becomes a stage for ambiguity and wonder.

Magritte exemplifies Salvo’s ongoing exploration of how art and money shape perception and power. The result is both witty and contemplative - a poetic commentary on identity, individuality, and the surreal absurdity of modern value systems.