LEONORA CARRINGTON ARRIVES AT MALBA AFTER BREAKING RECORDS
Malba announces the eagerly awaited arrival of Leonora Carrington's The Distractions of Dagoberto (1945), one of the most significant works by the celebrated surrealist artist, which was acquired in May by Eduardo F. Costantini at Sotheby's at a record price.
Eduardo F. Costantini's purchase of Leonora Carrington's work places the artist as one of the five most valuable works of art at auction, alongside Georgia O'Keeffe, Frida Kahlo, Louise Bourgeois and Joan Mitchell.
Painted by Carrington at the age of 28, at the height of her creative expression, The Distractions of Dagoberto offers a manifesto of the visual world that develops throughout her later production. This oil painting is one of the masterpieces of Leonora Carrington's long and illustrious career, and presents all of the artist's distinctive symbolism and iconography at its peak. Executed in Mexico in the 1940s, it is a pivotal painting of the surrealist movement. Citing iconography and ideas from sources ranging from medieval European history and contemporary scientific literature to Irish and Mexican myths, it presents a humanistic and inventive vision of a universe all its own.
It is on display at Tercer Ojo (Third Eye), the Malba exhibition that, from August 2022, brings together iconic works of Latin American art in a journey that puts the Malba Collection and that of its founder, Eduardo F. Costantini, in dialogue.
The Distractions of Dagoberto (1945) is presented in a section dedicated to surrealism. It is exhibited alongside three emblematic works by Remedios Varo: Armonía (Harmony) (1956), Simpatía (la rabia del gato) (Sympathy - the cat's rage) (1955), from the Eduardo F. Costantini Collection, and Icono (Icon) (1945), from the Malba Collection. Carrington's work and the three works by Varo are accompanied by photographs by Kati Horna from the series Ode to Necrophilia (1962), who was her friend and studio companion in the ritual practices of magic and occultism, hallmarks of her artistic production. This nucleus of surrealist women bears the name Transformar el rito (Transforming the Ritual).
Tercer Ojo, curated by María Amalia García, Malba's chief curator, occupies the newly nominated Ricardo Esteves Room on the museum's first level. Divided into two major conceptual nuclei: Inhabiting and Transforming, it has been modified during the two years it has been on display. It proposes the display of a collection in transformation that changes shape over time, illuminating the key moments of the region's art in dialogue with artistic and social themes, both historical and contemporary.
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