Paula Rego "Human Cargo"
Marlborough Chelsea
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The Directors of Marlborough Gallery announce that an exhibition of new drawings by the renowned figurative artist Paula Rego. This exhibition follows a retrospective of her work at Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid, which is currently on view at the National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, DC through May 25, 2008.
Rego’s exhibition will feature twenty large drawings, most in graphite and conte pencil, and two monumental triptychs.
Julius Purcell, writing recently in The Financial Times, commented that “Rego is a master of traditional media, yet her work has as much contemporary resonance as that of her peers.” She has been called an “Iberian magic realist,” (The Washington Post) and is recognized for the searing narratives, not easily defined, that drive her work. Rego has said, “We interpret the world through stories... everybody makes in their own way sense of things, but if you have stories it helps.”
Inspired by dark fairytales, classic and modern literature, her own childhood and the political and social realities of today, Rego creates mesmerizing, passionate tableaux that explore the struggles between women and men, parents and children, the powerful and the powerless.
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Schedule
from April 17, 2008 to May 17, 2008