Remedios Varo: Science Fictions—the first museum exhibition dedicated to the artist in the United States since 2000—brings together more than 20 paintings Varo created in Mexico from 1955 until her death in 1963. Additional materials from the artist’s archive—large-scale cartoons for paintings, notebooks, sketches, detailed studies, ephemera, and personal possessions—offer an even deeper understanding of her distinct and diverse practice. The exhibition’s subtitle, Science Fictions, alludes to the tensions and possibilities Varo brought together in her work as she searched to visualize hidden orders and unseen truths.
Closing November 27.
Friday, Saturday, & Sunday: 11-5
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Image credits:
Ciencia inútil, o El alquimista (Useless Science, or The Alchemist), 1955
Remedios Varo. Museo de Arte Moderno. INBAL / Secretaría de Cultura. © 2023 Remedios Varo, Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / VEGAP, Madrid. Photo by Rodrigo Chapa
Exploración de las fuentes del río Orinoco (Exploration of the Sources of the Orinoco River), 1959
Remedios Varo. Private collection. © 2023 Remedios Varo, Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / VEGAP, Madrid. Photo by Jamie M. Stukenberg, Stukenberg Photography
Cazadora de astros (Star Catcher), 1956
Remedios Varo. Toledo Museum of Art, Purchased with funds from the Libbey Endowment, Gift of Edward Drummond Libbey, by exchange, 2021.35. © 2023 Remedios Varo, Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / VEGAP, Madrid. Photo by Rafael Doniz, courtesy Gallery Wendi Norris, San Francisco
Triptych Install Shot Credit Lines/Copyright (from left to right)
Hacia la torre (Toward the Tower), 1960
Remedios Varo. Private collection. © 2023 Remedios Varo, Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / VEGAP, Madrid. Photograph Courtesy of Sotheby’s, Inc. © 2023
Bordando el manto terrestre (Embroidering the Earth’s Mantle), 1961
Remedios Varo. Private collection. © 2023 Remedios Varo, Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / VEGAP, Madrid. Photo by Jamie M. Stukenberg, Stukenberg Photography
La huida (The Escape), 1961
Remedios Varo. Museo de Arte Moderno. INBAL/Secretaría de Cultura. © 2023 Remedios Varo, Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / VEGAP, Madrid. Photo by Rodrigo Chapa
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