She was interested in science, in the explorations of space and time, and she saw art as a crucial visionary complement to science. Varo had been trained in the skills of mechanical drawing by her father. Such works reveal Varo's main concerns: with dreams, with the events of her own life, and with the occult. In Exploration of the Sources of the Orinoco River (1959), a bowler-hatted woman travels in a waistcoat boat powered by wings on strings through a flooded forest to meet a small overflowing goblet on a tiny table. Her paintings show slender, attentuated figures with mask-like faces sometimes with wheels for feet, or confined by architectural facades, or built into peculiar vehicles of transport In The Useless Science or the Alchemist (1955), the patient worker cranking the mechanisms of elaborate scientific machines has drawn the chequered floor around her shoulders as if it were a drapery. The fascinating story of her life and the dazzling intricacy of her art will prove a revelation.Remedios Varo had a deep belief in the power of the spiritual in life, in the potent interdependence of people and objects. It concludes with an invaluable chronology as well as a newly updated bibliography and list of exhibitions.Īn instant celebrity in Mexicowhere her retrospectives have drawn record crowdsVaro has recently found enthusiastic audiences in Europe, the Americas, Australia, and Japan.
The book is further enlivened by her own voice, conveyed in hilarious letters and surreal stories, published here for the first time.
Fifty color reproductions capture the wit and beauty of her major paintings numerous black-and-white illustrations document other works and portray the compelling artist with her circle of lifelong friends and admirers.
Painted with a jewellike palette and old-master precision, Varo's intimate tableaux, rich with details of women's experience, tell fantasy tales of alchemy, science, mysticism, and magic. Kaplan's vivid chronicle, the first on the subject in English, interweaves Varo's life with the artist's exquisite work. The adventures that fill the strange and wonderful paintings by Remedios Varo (1908-1963) reflect the physical and psychological journeys of her own tumultuous life.
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