Leonora Carrington’s Atavisms

México D. F.: In an interview published a few years back, Leonora Carrington had this to say about his creative way: “Images trickle in but I don’t know where they come from. I suspect from the universal subconscious, though I can’t make out what’s mine or what part of me what I do comes from. The characters climb up onto the paintings.”

Her place as a living legend of the surreal movement is expressed in time, especially in the act of building on reality after reality, inside of which this lucid creator carries on at age 94. 

As part of the celebrations for her birthday this Saturday April 9, the Estacion Indianilla Cultural Center will unveil an exhibit featuring ten new bronze sculptures by this painter, sculptor, engraver, writer and winner of the National Art Prize. They are “Rostro águila”, “Dama y zorro”, “Barca con chango”, “Stallion”, “Paseo a caballo”, “Minotauro”, “Máscara con gato”, “Silla”, “Nigromante” and “Dama con tocado”, pieces whereby the artist reinvents herself once again.

The ten sculptures are exposed next to fifteen artworks –little or completely unknown- by Mexican painter and stage designer Gunther Gerzso (1915-2000), her friend from the time Leonora arrived in Mexico back in the 1940s. Her presence in Gerzso’s work entitled “Los días de la calle Gabino Barreda”, 1944, is well known).

Estación Indianilla Cultural Center

Dr. Claudio Bernard 111, Colonia Doctores

Mexico D.F.