Frieze Masters 2025

Gallery Wendi Norris is pleased to return to Frieze Masters in London with a presentation exploring how Mexico’s artistic traditions, cultural heritage, and varied landscape shaped 20th-century art. The booth features exceptional and rare works in a wide range of mediums by Leonora Carrington, Wolfgang Paalen, Alice Rahon, Remedios Varo, and Peter Young, artists whose practices were inspired by the time they lived in and visited Mexico.

Featuring paintings, oil on shaped canvas, textile, three-dimensional objects, and works on both paper and tree bark, the presentation is unified by these artists’ encounters with Mexico. Carrington, Paalen, Rahon, and Varo emigrated from Europe to Mexico, a move that imprinted their art—already suffused with traces of Surrealism’s legacy—with a spirit of cultural synthesis, while Young traveled to Mexico in part to build new artistic horizons. In moving beyond Western visual culture, these artists would carve a unique and durable way forward for modern art.