Leonora Carrington - ETHIOPS

This show brings together a group of works by Leonora Carrington produced around the same time as Ethiops (1964). Created in the late 1950s and throughout the 1960s, these works reflect a period in which the artist had already developed a highly personal and forward-looking artistic language, one that departed decisively from European art of the first half of the twentieth century. During these years, Carrington pursued sustained inquiries into feminism and environmental concerns, while also engaging with non-Western thought and artistic traditions, among other subjects. Some of the works included here come into dialogue with the exceptional painting of 1965, while others point to distinct aspects of Carrington's practice during this period, as well as to broader concerns that run throughout her oeuvre. The selection foregrounds the radical nature of her formal experimentation, linking it to her pictorial production while also underscoring her interest in and development of a multidisciplinary practice.