Magali Lara : cinco décadas en espiral = five decades in spiral /
Following the notion of the endless spiral, we present a retrospective of Magali Lara's (Mexico City, 1956) body of work in reverse-chronological order. This exhibition and its accompanying publication examine Lara's artistic and spatial explorations throughout her career, as well as the w...
| Uniform Title: | Magali Lara (Museo Universitario Arte Contempor̀neo) |
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | Spanish English |
| Language Notes: | Text in Spanish and English. |
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Ciudad de México :
Museo Universitario Arte Contempor̀neo, UNAM,
2025.
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| Edition: | Primera edición = |
| Series: | Folio MUAC ;
110. |
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| Summary: | Following the notion of the endless spiral, we present a retrospective of Magali Lara's (Mexico City, 1956) body of work in reverse-chronological order. This exhibition and its accompanying publication examine Lara's artistic and spatial explorations throughout her career, as well as the way in which she conceives and constructs formal spaces--that are nonetheless emotionally loaded--in order to lend shape to a territory of her own. This exhibition features much of the research that Lara has accomplished over the past five decades: from her recent murals, paintings and artist's books, to her work with photographs, ceramics, drawings and printmaking from the 1970s. Specific aspects of her practice focus on the interplay between negative and positive space, the juxtaposition of elements drawn from vastly differing scales and the interrelation between writing and visual art. As one of the most relevant practitioners of painting in Latin America today, Magali Lara seeks to create unique personal environments where the objects or landscapes depicted are never what they seem, as she reroutes their meaning to another interpretation: flowers are not merely flowers, nor are words or colors. |
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| Item Description: | Published on occasion of the exhibition Magali Lara: Five Decades in Spiral (April 5 to October 19, 2025) MUAC, Museo Universitario Arte Contempor̀neo, UNAM, Mexico City. |
| Physical Description: | 215 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 22 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| ISBN: | 9788410290181 8410290189 9786075872605 6075872604 |