Research Catalog

Title

Constellations : Remedios Varo / curators, Victoria Giraudo, Carlos A. Molina.

Publication

Ciudad Autonóma de Buenos Aires : MALBA, 2020.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Varo, Remedios, 1908-1963
• Cirlot, Victoria
• Giraudo, Victoria
• Molina, Carlos
• Museo de Arte Latinoamericano de Buenos Aires, issuing body, host institution

Description

xxiv, 139 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), portraits; 24 cm

Summary

The exhibition curated by Victoria Giraudo, Chief Curator of Malba, and Carlos A. Molina, Chief Curator of MAM, comprises the legacy of the personal archive of Remedios Varo (Anglès, Spain 1908 Mexico City, Mexico 1963), is a central figure in Latin American surrealism and fantastic art and an essential reference in Mexico's mid-20th-century art scene as a member of an extraordinary group of exiled artists and intellectuals. The book reproduces the main works of the exhibition created between 1938 and 1963 and focuses on the production of the artist during her exile in Mexico, beginning in 1942. "After almost two years of work on the specifics of the collaboration between MALBA and MAM and thanks to the generous loan on the part of the Mexican Office of Culture, the Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes y Literatura (INBAL) and MAM itself, we have the honor of opening the first exhibition of this remarkable artist ever held in South America. 'Remedios Varo: constellations' brings together a selection of over one hundred and twenty works--paintings, sketches, as well as a substantial collection of documents from the artist's personal archive, recently donated the MAM collection. The selection includes her notebooks, drafts of her fantastic stories, and correspondence with intellectuals and friends like writers Benjamin Peret, Cesar Moro, and Octavio Paz, and artists Leonora Carrington, Kati Horna, surrealist painter Oscar Dominguez and others." --Page 7.

Alternative Title

Remedios Varo

Subject

• Varo, Remedios, 1908-1963 > Exhibitions
• Varo, Remedios, 1908-1963
• 1900-1999
• Surrealism > Mexico > History > 20th century > Exhibitions
• Surrealism
• Women artists
• Mexico

Genre/Form

• History.
• Criticism, interpretation, etc.
• Exhibition catalogs.

Note

• The catalogue was published to accompany the first anthological exhibition of Remedios Varo in Argentina held in Malba from March 6-June 15, 2020.
• Cover title.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

Remedios Varo remembers : tradition and surrealism in her paintings / Victoria Cirlot -- Constellations : Remedios Varo -- Forewords -- The Varo method / Victoria Giraudo -- Works exhibited -- Remedios Varo constellations / Carlos A. Molina -- (S)elective affinities.

Call Number

JQE 22-564

ISBN

• 9789874713797
• 9874713798

OCLC

1249031808

Title

Constellations : Remedios Varo / curators, Victoria Giraudo, Carlos A. Molina.

Publisher

Ciudad Autonóma de Buenos Aires : MALBA, 2020.

Type of Content

still image

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references.

Chronological Term

1900-1999

Added Author

Varo, Remedios, 1908-1963, artist.

Container of (work): Cirlot, Victoria. Remedios Varo remembers : tradition and surrealism in her paintings.

Giraudo, Victoria, organizer, writer of supplementary textual content.

Molina, Carlos, organizer, writer of supplementary textual content.

Museo de Arte Latinoamericano de Buenos Aires, issuing body, host institution.

Research Call Number

JQE 22-564