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I share in Las Fotos de los Lectores de La Vanguardia this series of photographs that I took at the Fundación Mapfre exhibition dedicated to the painter of English origin and who died in Mexico, Leonora Carrington.
This surrealist painter seemed fabulous to me, not only because of her technique, but also because of the world of magic and mystery in which she surrounds you.
As detailed by the Mapfre Foundation in the presentation of the exhibition, “the exhibition intends to pay homage to this singular artist and to publicize the richness of a well-known work 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, his work had practically not been exhibited in our country until now,” they point out.
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, it 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 “tell us about aspects of the human being (fear, pain, joy, strangeness or happiness) in a direct way , which challenges us and confronts us to contrast our own certainties and uncertainties”.
