![]() ![]() Other current and recent major solo exhibitions include Museum De Reede, Antwerp, Belgium (30 July≢5 October 2021), and Paula Rego: Obedience and Defiance, curated by Catherine Lampert, which travelled from MK Gallery, Milton Keynes to the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh in 2019≢020 and was on view at the Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin from September 2020May 2021. The largest and most comprehensive retrospective of Regos work to date commenced this year at Tate Britain (7 July≢4 October 2021) and will travel to Kunstmuseum Den Haag, The Netherlands (27 November 2021≢0 March 2022) followed by Museo Picasso Malagá, Spain. I had something to show. The power of transformation caused by age, accident or anguish is one theme of an exhibition that reveals Regos creative inspiration and motivation, and the candour of her vision, sustained across narratives, through motifs and over decades.īorn in 1935 in Lisbon, Portugal, Dame Paula Rego RA lives and works in London. ![]() As she said at the time, I didnt like the fall but the self-portraits I liked doing. In these characteristically unflinching works, Rego deftly captures her own likeness, bruised and out of shape, not as a means of expressing pain but because its physical effects gave her a reason to draw herself. While Regos presence in her work as creator, narrator or putative subject is always palpable, she has made self-portraits only a handful of times in her career. The relationship between daughters and their mothers, a recurring theme in Regos art, is prevalent in a number of works such as Nursing, 2000, a large-scale monochrome work which delivers successive waves of shock: bodily transformation wrought by age and the apparent ambivalence of the carer.Īlso on view are a number of self-portraits made in 2017, soon after the artist fell and badly injured her face. For the first time, La Marafona will be shown with works from the 2007 Depression Series, a suite of large-scale pastels born out of an especially debilitating depressive episode and Regos attempts to draw her way out of it. Rego considers her own depression to have been inherited from her father and her identification with his suffering and its legacy is explored elsewhere in the exhibition. It includes works inspired by episodes from the artists childhood in Portugal, including the large-scale La Marafona, 2005, a tender portrayal that refers to the burden of her beloved fathers depression. Testament to a career spent exploring these hidden narratives and their associated stigmas, The Forgotten encircles themes and subjects that are often masked or concealed out of politeness or embarrassment such as mental illness and old age. To be held across the entirety of its Wharf Road spaces, the gallerys first solo exhibition by the artist brings together significant individual works and important series, many rarely shown, drawn principally from the past 20 years.Ĭelebrated as a peerless storyteller, Paula Rego has often brought immense psychological insight and imaginative power to the stories that we try to suppress or tell ourselves only in private. Victoria Miro announces The Forgotten, a major exhibition by Paula Rego. ![]()
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