THE LIFE AND INFLUENCE OF LEONORA CARRINGTON: A SYMPOSIUM
In conjunction with the exhibitionLeonora Carrington: The Story of the Last Egg (May 23 — June 29, 2019, 926 Madison Avenue, New York), Gallery Wendi Norris presents a symposium on Carrington’s work and her influence in a contemporary context.
Carlos Martin, Chief Curator at Fundación Mapfre, Madrid, presents research in conjunction with a solo Carrington exhibition entitled Leonora Carrington: tu país that will open at Fundación Mapfre in 2022, and then travel to the Museo Picasso Málaga. The exhibition will explore Carrington’s peripatetic life and how it influenced her work (she lived in Great Britain, Italy, France, Spain, the US, and Mexico).
According to Martin, “Organizing an exhibition of Carrington in Spain means more than paying debt to a creator who left an important trace in the works of artists of Spanish origin. From her experience in Madrid and in Santander arises her extraordinary memoir Down Below, a turning point in surrealist literature, as well as elements of her astonishing symbolic universe which she would develop in the following decades. The title, meaning “Leonora Carrington, your country” is a reference to her extraordinary painting 'Chiki, ton pays' and serves to epitomize our approach to Carrington as a transnational, extraterritorial artist.”
