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Magical is the word for the fascinating and compelling paintings of Remedios Varo. Born is Spain, she emigrated to Mexico with her husband Benjamin Péret, the French surrealist poet, after fleeing first Franco’s fascists, then Nazi-occupied France. Varo’s intensely strange paintings may well remind us of Bosch or Breughel, or of the surrealist adventures in free-associative imaging. But her work is intensely personal and unlike anything else in its endlessly open narrative possibilities. Her explorations of identity, of other-wordly myths and of freedom provide students of the fantastic with an arsenal of dangerous and beautiful visions. |
