Painter, poet, writer, critic, screenwriter, screenwriter, costume designer and theater and Opera decorator, Félix Labisse is one of the most original and independent surrealist artists of the 20th century.

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Influenced by James Ensor and Flemish Expressionism, the artist became closer to the Revolutionary Surrealist movement thanks to his friend Christian Dotremont, who will devote a monograph to him.

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He is distinguished from his peers by a practice that is located on the border between fantasy and surrealism. Under the aegis of metamorphosis, he painted rites imbued with magic, sorcery, or feminine eroticism. Its smooth lines in raw colors evolve in a strange and timeless world. He frequents Paul Delvaux, René Magritte, Pablo Picasso, Henri Masson and also influential writers of the time, such as Raymond Queneau, Robert Desnos, Paul Éluard, Jacques Prévert, and Boris Vian.

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Labisse exhibited at the Salon de Mai and the Salon d'Automne as well as at the Venice Biennale in 1954, and from 1957 onwards produced costumes and sets for the National Opera Theater, in collaboration with Debussy. Several retrospectives are dedicated to him : in Charleroi in 1969, in Rotterdam in 1973, in Ostend in 1979. His works are part of the collections of several French and international museums, such as the Museum of Modern Art in Paris, the Museum of Modern Art in Brussels, the Guggenheim Museum in New York...