The exhibition Lilia Carrillo: Ruptures and Premonitions introduce the work of Mexican painter Lilia Carrillo through a survey of two dozen of her most accomplished paintings alongside a selection of archival photographs, letters, invitations, and publications.
The show will present a selection of the artist’s paintings from 1961, the year her aesthetic language was consolidated, to 1974, the year before her premature death. The ruptures shaping the presentation include both Carrillo’s association with the Generación de la Ruptura, and her formal interests that challenge the stability of the picture plane and emphasize the physicality of the painted surface. The exhibition will survey the artist’s disruptive gestures of building up thick surfaces that she then carved or scratched into, integrating collaged fabrics or paper fragments into her canvases, smudging her compositions, and using brushes of diverse sizes and other tools to apply and disperse her pigments.
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