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Installation view of "Wilfredo Lam" at Museo Reina Sofía, Madrid (2016)
Installation view of "Wilfredo Lam" at Museo Reina Sofía, Madrid (2016)
Installation view of "Wilfredo Lam" at Museo Reina Sofía, Madrid (2016)
Installation view of "Wilfredo Lam" at Museo Reina Sofía, Madrid (2016)
Installation view of "Wilfredo Lam" at Museo Reina Sofía, Madrid (2016)
Installation view of "Wilfredo Lam" at Museo Reina Sofía, Madrid (2016)
Installation view of "Wilfredo Lam" at Museo Reina Sofía, Madrid (2016)
Installation view of "Wilfredo Lam" at Museo Reina Sofía, Madrid (2016)
Installation view of "Wilfredo Lam" at Museo Reina Sofía, Madrid (2016)
Installation view of "Wilfredo Lam" at Museo Reina Sofía, Madrid (2016)
Installation view of "Wilfredo Lam" at Museo Reina Sofía, Madrid (2016)
Installation view of "Wilfredo Lam" at Museo Reina Sofía, Madrid (2016)
Installation view of "Wilfredo Lam" at Museo Reina Sofía, Madrid (2016)
Installation view of "Wilfredo Lam" at Museo Reina Sofía, Madrid (2016)
Installation view of "Wilfredo Lam" at Museo Reina Sofía, Madrid (2016)
Installation view of "Wilfredo Lam" at Museo Reina Sofía, Madrid (2016)
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Wifredo Lam

"Wilfredo Lam" will be a major retrospective on the Cuban artist, exploring the progressions from each period of his life and body of work. On display will be over 250 works and 300 documents.
Museo Reina Sofía
Apr 6th – Aug 15th 2016
Madrid, Calle de Santa Isabel, 52Map
, 'Al Final de la Noche,' 1969, Museo Reina Sofía

Wifredo Lam

Al Final de la Noche, 1969

"Wilfredo Lam" at Museo Reina Sofía, Madrid

, 'Les Mains Croisés,' 1951, Museo Reina Sofía

Wifredo Lam

Les Mains Croisés, 1951

"Wilfredo Lam" at Museo Reina Sofía, Madrid

, 'Le Repos du Modèle ,' 1941, Museo Reina Sofía

Wifredo Lam

Le Repos du Modèle , 1941

"Wilfredo Lam" at Museo Reina Sofía, Madrid

, 'Nativité,' 1947, Museo Reina Sofía

Wifredo Lam

Nativité, 1947

"Wilfredo Lam" at Museo Reina Sofía, Madrid

Press Release

The retrospective on the Cuban painter Wifredo Lam (Sagua La Grande, 1902 – Paris, 1982) responds to a general desire to give an account of modernism in all its complexity, and aims to reinstate Lam’s work in an international art history of which he is an essential player. The exhibition not only returns to the genesis of his work but also surveys the various phases and the conditions of the progressive reception and integration of an oeuvre patiently built up between Spain, Paris and Marseilles, and Cuba.

The Museo Reina Sofía dedicated an exhibition in 1992 to Lam’s pictorial work. The current retrospective traces the artist’s singular career through about 250 paintings, drawings, engravings and ceramics, together with over 300 documents including letters, photographs, journals and books. This material illuminates the context of his work and thought, with special attention paid to his years in Spain (1923-1938), the engravings of the sixties and seventies, his collaborations with the leading writers of his time, and the major works created upon his return to his native Cuba (1940-1950). The result is a definitive account of a committed life in a turbulent century.

Some very rarely seen works have been retrieved for the Madrid show. Located in Spain after the artist’s death, they bear witness to a long and difficult apprenticeship during the fifteen years he spent in this country. His formal eclecticism recalls fin-desiècle and Expressionist aesthetics as well as late Cubism, and it feeds on the transnational “syntax” that artists adopted around the world in the 1920s and 1930s in attempting to challenge or transform dominant forms and orders.

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