LEONORA CARRINGTON

Universal Artist

surrealism movement was born in Europe at the end of World War I and during World War II as a cultural phenomenon that set its roots and spread all over the world.

At present, we are witnessing the reassessment of Surrealism as an expression of art with world relevance. Leonora Carrington was part of that artistic and expressive emergence since its beginning in Europe and Mexico.

The landscapes, the pre-Hispanic cosmogony, the cultural syncretism and the Mexican magical traditions were surrealist as perceived by André Breton. Mexico was a melting point for artists that fled or were exiled from Europe and turned Mexico City into one of the Surrealism epicenters.

Leonora Carrington arrived in Mexico in 1941. She became friends with relevant artist of that period. She experimented with various means throughout her life to represent her visual world: she painted puppets with José Horna, collaborated with Luis Buñuel and Edward James, became a close friend of Remedios Varo, developed her painting and literary production, and created magnific sculptures in bronze. Some of these sculptures, at monumental scale, can be observed in several museums and public spaces all over Mexico. p El Metropolitan Museum of Art (MET) de Nueva York y el Tate Modern de Londres han realizado una exposición conjunta para reposicionar y reinterpretar el arte surrealista. p Características del surrealismo: p The New York Metropolitan Museum of Art (MET) and the Tate Modern of London have organized a joint exhibition to reposition and reinterpret surrealist art p Characteristics of surrealism: p Leonora Carrington nació en Inglaterra (1917) y falleció en México en 2011. p Durante 25 años vivió en Nueva York y Chicago. p A su regreso a México en 2008 con el apoyo de su hijo Pablo Weisz Carrington y en el taller Fundición Artística Velasco realizó un conjunto de esculturas. p Esa época de creación artística de Leonora Carrington ha sido documentada por su hijo Pablo Weisz Carrington en el libro Leonora Carrington, Últimas esculturas (2008-2011), publicado por el Fondo Editorial del Gobierno del Estado de México, México, en 2016. p Leonora Carrington was born in England (1917) and died in Mexico in 2011. p For 25 years he lived in New York and Chicago. p Upon his return to Mexico in 2008, with the support of his son Pablo Weisz Carrington and in the Fundición Artística Velasco workshop, he made a set of sculptures. p That period of artistic creation by Leonora Carrington has been documented by her son Pablo Weisz Carrington in the book Leonora Carrington, Latest sculptures (2008-2011), published by the Editorial Fund of the Government of the State of Mexico, Mexico, in 2016.

Influenced since childhood by Irish tales and Celtic mythology, Leonora Carrington created a world of imaginary creatures and landscapes. Her plastic creation reached tridimensional expression in Mexico, as it was here that she made most of her sculpture production.

Arte Hoy Galería is a space for the bronze magical creatures of the latest period of Leonora Carrington’s art production (2007-2011).

We recognize and express the importance of the contribution of Leonora Carrington to Mexican sculpture integrated to the cultural and artistic history of Mexico. Truly deserving, Leonora Carrington also enjoys a growing recognition as one of the most relevant artists of the 20th and 21st Centuries at international level.

8 Es un fenómeno artístico universal que aspira a la libertad y a formas humanas de expresión; no es solamente un movimiento de una época.

8 Se inició en la década de 1920 en Paris y ha continuado hasta nuestros días.

8 Es una corriente artística por la paz, el humanismo y la liberación.

8 Sus expresiones artísticas asumen todos los géneros modernos y contemporáneos, es decir pintura, escultura, fotografía, performance, literatura, música y otras formas de expresión.

8It is a world art phenomenon that aspires to freedom and the human forms of expression, not only a movement of a certain period of time.

8 It began in the 1920’s in Paris and has continued until now.

8 It is an art current for peace, humanism and liberation.

8 Its art expressions assume all modern and contemporary genres, i.e., painting, sculpture, photography, performance, literature, music and other forms of expression.