{"id":11337,"date":"2021-07-12T10:58:09","date_gmt":"2021-07-12T14:58:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/content\/?p=11337"},"modified":"2021-07-12T10:58:09","modified_gmt":"2021-07-12T14:58:09","slug":"paula-regos-creative-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/content\/content\/collage-exhibitions\/paula-regos-creative-world\/","title":{"rendered":"Paula Rego’s Creative World"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Self Portrait in Red<\/em> by Paula Rego
1966; Museu Nacional de Arte Contemporanea do Chiado (Lisbon, Portugal) \u00a9 Paula Rego<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

COLLAGE ON VIEW<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Paula Rego<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

at Tate Britain in London, United Kingdom
7 July-24 October 2021<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Tate Britain presents the United Kingdom\u2019s largest and most comprehensive retrospective of the work of Paula Rego. An uncompromising artist of extraordinary imaginative power, Rego (born in Lisbon in 1935) redefined figurative art and revolutionised the way in which women are represented. The exhibition tells the story of this artist\u2019s remarkable life, highlighting the personal nature of much of her work and the socio-political context in which it is rooted. It reveals her broad range of references, from comic strips to history paintings. Featuring over 100 works including collage, paintings, large-scale pastels, drawings and etchings, the show spans Rego\u2019s early work from the 1950s to her richly layered, staged scenes from the 2000s.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The exhibition begins with a selection of Rego\u2019s rarely seen early works in which the artist first explored personal as well as social struggle. In Interrogation<\/em> (1950), painted at fifteen years of age, Rego asserted her commitment to denouncing injustices and standing up for victims. In her paintings, collages and drawings from the 1960s to 70s, Rego passionately and fiercely opposed the Portuguese dictatorship, using a range of sources for inspiration including advertisements, caricatures and news stories. She also explored folk tales as representations of human psyche and behaviour, as with Brancaflor\u2013The Devil and the Devil\u2019s Wife in Bed<\/em> (1975).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Return of the Native<\/em> by Paula Rego
1993. Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Portugal \u00a9 Paula Rego<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Rego abandoned collage in 1980 and returned to painting, combining childhood memories with her experiences as a woman, wife and lover. The exhibition includes major paintings from this period such as examples from “The Vivian Girls” series, in which girls rebel against a coercive society, and the seminal works that established Rego\u2019s reputation when first exhibited at the Serpentine Gallery in 1988 including The Policeman\u2019s Daughter<\/em> (1987). Many of these pictures relate to Rego\u2019s intense relationship with her husband, the painter Victor Willing, who for many years suffered from multiple sclerosis and died in 1988.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Throughout her career, Rego has been fascinated with storytelling and this imbues much of her work. The exhibition includes prints from her series “Nursery Rhymes” (1989) in which Rego explores the strangeness and cruelty of traditional British children\u2019s songs. As the first artist-in-residence at the National Gallery, Rego also took inspiration from art history, weaving references to old masters such as Hogarth and Vel\u00e1zquez into paintings in which the protagonists are women, exploring their struggle and their journey towards emancipation, as in The Artist in Her Studio<\/em> (1993).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The exhibition features Rego\u2019s large pastels of single, female figures from the 1990s to 2000s, including the “Dog Woman” and “Abortion” series, some of the artist\u2019s most celebrated and arresting pictures. Works from the “Abortion” series, which the artist was proud to see used to campaign for the legalisation of abortion in Portugal, depict women in the aftermath of illegal abortions. “Possession” (2004), another major series of pastels rarely exhibited, combines Rego\u2019s personal experience of depression and therapy with inspiration from 19th century staged photographs of women diagnosed as suffering from “hysteria”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The exhibition invites visitors into Rego\u2019s creative world and explores the mise-en-sc\u00e8nes that the artist has been setting up, drawing and painting in her studio throughout the 2000s. Seminal paintings from this period include War<\/em> (2003) and The Pillowman<\/em> (2004). The exhibition also brings together striking works addressing the issues of women\u2019s trafficking and female genital mutilation. These powerful images confront difficult stories of pain and abuse that Rego feels need to be told.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Paula Rego” is curated by Elena Crippa, Curator, Modern & Contemporary Art, with Zuzana Fla\u0161kov\u00e1, Assistant Curator, Modern & Contemporary British Art, Tate Britain. It is organised by Tate Britain in collaboration with Kunstmuseum Den Haag and Museo Picasso Ma\u0301laga. It is accompanied by a fully illustrated catalogue from Tate Publishing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

(text adapted from the museum’s press materials)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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INFORMATION<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Tate Britain<\/strong>
Millbank
London SW1P 4RG, United Kingdom
+44 20 7887 8888<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hours:
Daily, 10AM-6PM
Timed tickets are required. Book HERE<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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COLLAGE ON VIEW Paula Rego at Tate Britain in London, United Kingdom7 July-24 October 2021 Tate Britain presents the United Kingdom\u2019s largest and most comprehensive retrospective of the work of Paula Rego. An uncompromising artist of extraordinary imaginative power, Rego…<\/p>\n

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