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As Proezas de Macunaíma 11
1995

A work on paper in nine parts
Tempera and gold leaf
Framed 170 x 109 cm
Private Collection

Monotype
Printed on Somerset TP 300gsm and heightened in pencil
Plate: 66.5 x 50.8 cm
Private Collection

Drypoint
Printed on Somerset TP 300gsm
Edition of 20
Plate: 17.5 x 20 cm

Her work was displayed in the exhibition Ana Maria Pacheco: New Painting and Sculpture on Tour from the National Gallery 29 September 1999 - 9 January 2000.

oil on canvas
Painting
40 by 27.1 cm.

The artist has also explored juxtapositions of traditional European interiors—dining rooms, parlors, and museum galleries—with unexplained splashes of bright color that appear to explode into the rooms from doorways and windows.

Lago, who is Spanish and resides in Spain and Lithuania, exhibits widely and has upcoming shows at Bredgade Kunsthandel in Copenhagen (April 12), Geraldine Banier in Paris (June 7th), Moret Art in Coruña, Spain (end of June), and Goodwin Fine Art in Denver (November). 

Acrylic on panel

39 3/10 × 31 1/2 in

99.9 × 79.9 cm

Bonhams

Estimated value: £55,000–£75,000

Archival pigment giclée on Hahnemuhle Archival Fine Art paper

27 1/2 × 19 3/5 × 1 1/5 in

69.9 × 49.8 × 3 cm

Edition of 150

But in place of the beautiful face a viewer would expect in the center of these pleasant trappings, Juszkiewicz has turned the subject’s head 180 degrees to show an elaborate hairstyle, or filled the face with unruly plants or ribbons. A statement on the artist’s website explains, “Through the deconstruction of historical portraits, she undermines their constant, indisputable character and tries to influence the way we perceive them. Juszkiewicz experiments with the form of the female figure and face, balancing on the border between what is human and inhuman.”

The artist lives and works in Warsaw, Poland. She is represented by Galerie Rolando Anselmi in Berlin, where she will have a solo show on view in November and December, 2019. Juszkiewicz shares updates from her work and travels on Instagram.

Altered oil painting

35 × 30 × 2 1/2 in

88.9 × 76.2 × 6.4 cm

Strongly influenced by children's book illustrations and cartoons, [OONA GRIMES]'s series of etching and aquatints Downfall 1998 creates a wonderfully witty and aberrant infantile world full of bodily eruptions and explosions. Her more recent work, however, has a lighter touch. How Clever of God is a series of delicate drawings in gouache and ink that depict strange landscapes and biomorphic forms that suggest female genitaliaand fleshy aborted foetal forms. Their isolation in large areas of white ground only serves to heighten their sense of isolation and vulnerability.

PART OF Pendle Witches

MEDIUM Etching and aquatint on paper

DIMENSIONS Image: 452 × 297 mm

COLLECTION Tate

ACQUISITION Purchased 1997

REFERENCE P77907

Etching and aquatint on paper

Edition 6/13 + 1AP

This work is part of a limited edition set.

29.5x44.5 cm (mancha/image)
Print

Signature

Signed and numbered 6/13 AP

Paula Rego
Portuguese, b. 1935
A “painter of stories” celebrated for her dark, complex paintings, prints, drawings, and collages, Paula Rego draws upon folk- and fairytales, literature, and her own biography to create politically charged, deeply unsettling tableaux. Her forceful compositions are imbued with cruelty—both subtle and overt—and permeated with a sense of unease and ambiguity. Foregrounding women and girls, and often using animals as stand-ins for humans, she depicts dysfunctional family relationships, political systems (like that of Portugal’s António de Oliveira Salazar), and social structures. Rego is fascinated by what she calls “the beautiful grotesque” in life and in art. As she describes: “It’s the divine, perhaps. […] I mean some other kind of divine, which connects very strongly to Portuguese folk tales and stories—the strength of them and, very often, the enormous cruelty involved. The cruelty is fascinating.”

 (British/Portuguese, born 1935)

Title:

 , 1996

Medium:

etchings and aquatints

Size:

70 x 54.7 cm. (27.6 x 21.5 in.)

Paula Rego’s Nursery Rhymes offer a gothic twist on familiar stories and explores the underlying horror and sexual menace of tales originally intended for children. Rego uses these commonly known stories as the framework for her imagined scenes, bringing out their hidden darkness.

In this case the ‘black sheep’ has become a towering ram seated to embrace a pubescent girl, who in turn gestures to a figure behind the ram’s back (possibly the ‘little boy’ of the song) hinting at a strange love triangle.

The reverse archival pigment print

19 7/10 × 23 3/5 × 1 1/5 in

50 × 60 × 3 cm

Edition of 50 + 5AP

This work is part of a limited edition set.

Also published as an Artist's Book – twenty screenprints accompanied by forty poems by George Szirtes. Further information on request.