REMEDIOS VARO: LOS AÑOS EN MEXICO “Los años en Mexico”
The first major monograph for a worldwide audience on one
of the most appealing, mysterious surrealist painters.
The volume showcases all the painters most important works
and Masayo Nonakas illuminating text offers a unique
insight into the life and work of Remedios Varo.
She is acclaimed as one of the most talented women
surrealists of the 20th century.
Born and raised in Spain, Remedios Varo (1908-1963) received
her first training in Madrid, before fleeing the Spanish civil war to
join surrealist circles in Paris. At the outbreak of World War II, she
was forced to take refuge in Mexico, where she remained until
her untimely death in 1963.
Known as one of the three brujas (witches) active in the Mexico
City art milieu, Varo shared an interest in esotericism with fellow
painter Leonora Carrington and a range of interests in science,
philosophy, and the literature of German Romanticism with the
photographer Kati Horna.
For some ten years before her death, she devoted herself to
creating an extraordinary dreamlike oeuvre, on the threshold
between mysticism and the modern mind.
