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Remedios Varo - Science Fictions
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An exploration of the captivating work and mystical outlook of the
modern artist Remedios Varo, focusing on her years in Mexico City
 This publication offers a definitive look at the artistic
practice of Remedios Varo (1908–1963) following her emigration
from Spain to Mexico City in 1941. Her work from 1955 to 1963 made
a lasting contribution to modern art and the legacy of Surrealism.
In Remedios Varo: Science Fictions, fresh historical and material
findings establish the integral relationship between Varo’s
layered interests—in alchemy, architecture, magic, mysticism,
philosophy, and science—and her beguiling technical approach to
art making. Essays detail specific works’ complex stories and
spectacular surfaces. An illustrated taxonomy of Varo’s artistic
techniques, including automatic mark making as well as careful
manipulation of materials and media, offers new insights into the
artist’s craft. An illustrated inventory of a major portion of
Varo’s library—published here for the first time—reveals the
artist’s engagement with a wide range of subjects. Stunning new
photography of many of her artworks are presented within a dynamic
geometric design inspired by the artist’s work. Situating Varo as
a woman working in midcentury Mexico City and living among a
tight-knit community of local and émigré artists, poets, and
thinkers, the catalogue illuminates the complex worldview that
shaped her search for individual and collective transcendence.
 Distributed for the Art Institute of Chicago, in
partnership with the Museo de Arte Moderno, Mexico City Â
Exhibition Schedule  Art Institute of Chicago (July 29,
2023–November 27, 2023) Â
A New York Times best art book of 2021 "[A] gold mine of a book . .
. Funny, biting, morbid, it's a page-turner for sure."-Holland
Cotter, New York Times Ray Johnson (1927-1995) was a renowned maker
of meticulous collages whose works influenced movements including
Pop Art, Fluxus, and Conceptual Art. Emerging from the
interdisciplinary community of artists and poets at Black Mountain
College, Johnson was extraordinarily adept at using social
interaction as an artistic endeavor and founded a mail art network
known as the New York Correspondence School. Drawing on the vast
collection of Johnson's work at the Art Institute of Chicago, this
volume gives new shape to our understanding of his artistic
practice and features hundreds of pieces that include artist's
books, collages, drawings, mail art, and performance documentation.
In keeping with Johnson's democratic, rhizomatic, and
antihierarchical ethos, this indispensable resource on the artist's
oeuvre contains 700 illustrations, many of them never before
published, and twenty-one short essays by various contributors that
allow readers to dip into and out of the book in a nonlinear
manner. Distributed for the Art Institute of Chicago Exhibition
Schedule: Art Institute of Chicago (November 26, 2021-March 21,
2022)
Rene Magritte (1898-1967) was one of the most intriguing painters
associated with Surrealism, but he did not fully find his voice
until after breaking ties with the movement. This book, the first
to look exclusively at Magritte's late career, examines his most
important bodies of work from the 1940s through the 1960s, and
shows how they marked a fundamental shift in painting from
Modernism to our own time. Featuring more than sixty artworks, Rene
Magritte: The Fifth Season explores how Magritte balanced irony and
conviction, philosophy and fantasy, to illuminate the gaps between
what we see and what we know. Subjects explored in this volume
include the artist's Renoir period; the periode vache, with its
Fauvist- and Expressionist-style paintings that are little known to
American audiences; the `hypertrophy of objects' paintings, a
series that plays with the scale of familiar objects; and the
enigmatic Dominion of Light suite, paintings that suggest the
simultaneous experience of day and night. Together, the works
reveal Magritte as an artist acutely attuned to the paradoxes at
work within reality, and an enduring champion of the role of
mystery in life and art.
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