Madrid, April 5 (Notimex) .- The Reina Sofia Museum in this capital today presented the retrospective of the Cuban artist Wifredo Lam, who makes a journey through his work through 250 pieces as well as documents and photographs.
museum director Manuel Borja-Villel and Catherine David, who are the curators of the exhibition, explained at a press conference the importance of the work of Lam (Sagua La Grande, Cuba, 1902-Paris 1982) considered avant-garde painter and a wide path.
After passing through the Pompidou Centre in Paris, the exhibition will be in Madrid from April 5 to August 15, and will then be taken to the Tate Modern in London.
Catherine David explained that although it has tried to define as surreal or modernist Lam, his work “is more complex,” and is also marked by the countries in which he lived and visited, such as Spain, France, Mexico, Haiti , Italy and others.
Borja-Villel highlighted the surrealist influence of Lam for what he considered as “mixed paint” that “questions colonization”, which worked from the thirties after he met Pablo Picasso .
the exhibition includes paintings, drawings, prints and ceramics, also enriched with documents and photographs.
in the exhibition there are works of the twenties and thirties of last century, when lived in Spain and Paris, he returned to Cuba because of World War II, his subsequent stays next to Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera in Mexico until the sixty established in Italy.
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