This is Paula Rego’s third exhibition at the Jahn und Jahn gallery in Munich. The exhibition includes drawings and prints by the artist from various working groups and periods.
Starting Thursday, the Jahn und Jahn gallery will once again present a solo exhibition by Paula Rego, the artist’s third in this space in Munich, Germany, entitled “Study of life“.
“In this exhibition we highlight the artist’s drawing works closely related to her pictorial production”revealed to Lusa Carolina Trigueiros, director of Jahn und Jahn Lisboa.
On the gallery’s official website, you can read that Paula Rego represents an “unmistakable artistic attitude.”
“Translates political, social and cultural contexts pop “in pictorial structures that reveal the depths of our human existence and explore questions of relationship structures riddled with conflict, violence, death and sexuality. Immoral and disciplined, he portrays these contexts in figures that appear powerful and strong in their self-confidence,” the gallery highlights.
Tim Geissler from Jahn und Jahn Munich tells Lusa that the connection with Paula Rego began more than a decade ago.
“We held the first exhibition of the Portuguese artist in 2013, it was the first time that Paula Rego held a solo exhibition in Germany. Since then, a relationship has been maintained between the gallery and the artist’s work,” she says.
In recent years, Rego, who died in 2022, has attracted international attention. Retrospectives such as that at the Tate Britain in London in 2021, as well as participation in the 59th Venice Biennale in 2022, gave visibility to his artistic work.
“The history of German painters was very important and served as a reference for her work. I think it was important for her that her work was known and seen by Germans,” Geissler told Lusa.
In the current exhibition, Jahn und Jahn presents drawings and prints by Paula Rego from different working groups and periods.
“Rego composes his representations based on social contexts and his own phantasmagoria. His works immediately stimulate the imagination and raise the question of what happens to the figure in the painting, what state it is in and how the story will continue. Each of his etchings, his graphic work made up of 280 engravings and lithographs, is its own myth and an inner container that, like a dream or a fairy tale, attracts and enchants us,” can be read on the gallery’s official website.
The exhibition opens this Wednesday and is open to the public on Friday.
“We expect a mainly German audience, but also from Switzerland and Austria. I think it will be a very interesting mix of people,” describes Tim Geissler.
The Jahn und Jahn gallery in Lisbon will open a solo exhibition by German artist Imi Knoebel on 14 September.
Source: Observadora
