Painter, sculptor and writer among many other things, Leonora Carrington (Clayton-le-Woods, Lancashire, 1917-Mexico City, 2011) was one of the most relevant artists in the ranks of surrealism. Her artistic career was always marked by her eventful biography, which made her an eccentric and tragic person. But her work should not be interpreted only as the manifestation of an unstable mind. Quite the contrary, she is the fruit of an extraordinary imagination, creator of an aesthetic, symbolic and conceptual world that is not always easily decipherable. Versatile artist, continually in search of new forms of expression, his paintings, drawings, writings, tapestries or sculptures speak to us about aspects of the human being (fear, pain, joy, strangeness or happiness) in a direct,
The exhibition intends to pay homage to this singular artist and to publicize the richness of a work that is well known in the United States and Mexico but that only in recent years has begun to enjoy greater relevance in Europe. Although Carrington has left an important mark on the trajectory of different artists of Spanish origin, her work had practically not been exhibited in our country until now.
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