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Remedios Varo
Europe's first major museum show of the Spanish-Mexican surrealist: fantastical interiors and dreamlike landscapes peopled by musicians, scientists and travellers.
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A woman leaves the office of a Dr. F.J.A. (Freud, Jung, Adler) and drops her father's disembodied head into a small well. Varo called this the correct thing to do on leaving the psychoanalyst.
That painting is one of more than 70 works in Europe's first major museum show of Varo, hung roughly in order from her Barcelona and Paris years to the Mexico City paintings of the 1950s and early 60s. You move among mysterious musicians, eccentric scientists and travellers, painted with a precision Louisiana traces to early Renaissance Italy, alongside her drawings, notebooks and documents. She worked so slowly that buyers joined a waiting list for her paintings.
Kristeligt Dagblad gave it five stars out of six, and Berlingske called it an irresistible Moomin universe. Entry is the standard museum ticket (DKK 145, free under 18, no booking needed), and Louisiana is open until 22:00 Tuesday to Friday.
Editor's pick
In Woman Leaving the Psychoanalyst's Office, a woman drops her father's head down a well; Varo called it the correct thing to do. Europe's first major Varo show, 70-plus works, and Kristeligt Dagblad gave it five stars out of six.
Look for
Woman Leaving the Psychoanalyst's Office
Look for the cloaked woman stepping out of Dr. F.J.A.'s door and letting her father's head drop into a well, lent by Mexico City's Museo de Arte Moderno.
The Magician or the Juggler
Lent by MoMA, it shows a juggler on a cart holding a lion and a goat, entrancing a crowd of near-identical people who share one grey cloak, his face painted on mother of pearl.
Exploration of the Sources of the Orinoco River
A figure in a bowler hat and trench coat is ferried in a tiny boat shaped like a vest towards a wooden hut where water pours from a goblet.
Good for
- Evening Visits
- Nerding Out
- Out-Of-Town Guests
- Rainy Days
With kids
Under-18s get in free.
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Image credits
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- Remedios VaroQuinn Comendant / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 2.0
- The Garbage Man – Thomas DamboPhoto: Anders Sune Berg / ARKEN
- Gauguin & Kihara – First ImpressionsCourtesy of Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek
- The Cabinetmakers' Autumn Exhibition: Light & FormThomas Ibsen
- Louisiana Museum of Modern ArtLars Plougmann / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 2.0