There’s a tiny black and white reproduction of Celestial Pablum in there, next to a reproduction of a Dorothea Tanning painting. I think the first time I saw one of her works was in Women, Art, and Society by Whitney Chadwick, sometime in the late 1990s.
Can’t wait to see it!īiblioklept: I’ve yet to see one of Varo’s pieces in a museum, unfortunately-just reproductions in books and online. Creation of the Birds, 1957Įxciting news for Varo fans in the New York area: MoMA has acquired one of her most extraordinary works, The Juggler, which will be put on display when the museum re-opens in October 2019. Since then, I’ve seen other paintings, including Mimetismo/Mimicry and La creación de las ave s/ The Creation of the Birds, at the Museo de Arte Moderno in Mexico City, which has over thirty of her paintings-the largest collection in the world. Nothing compares to standing in front of one of her paintings to see the meticulous details, the true color, and the actual scale (her artworks can be much smaller than you imagine). That was my first experience seeing her paintings up close, and it blew me away. I started translating parts of it and later heard about an exhibit of her paintings at the National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington D.C., in 2000: The Magic of Remedios Varo. On a trip to Mexico City at that same time, I was surprised to find in a bookstore a small collection of her writings, Cartas, sueños y otros textos, and I brought it home with me. But it was by reading Janet Kaplan’s biography, Remedios Varo: Unexpected Journeys, that I learned more about her life and first saw many images of her paintings. Margaret Carson: I first heard of Remedios Varo in the mid-80s, when I was living in Madrid. Margaret Carsonīiblioklept: When did you first see Remedios Varo’s art? She is Assistant Professor in the Modern Languages Department at Borough of Manhattan Community College, The City University of New York. In addition to Letters, Dreams and Other Writings Margaret Carson’s translations include Sergio Chejfec’s Baroni, A Journey and My Two Worlds. As a huge fan of Remedios Varo’s art, I was thrilled last year when Wakefield Press published Margaret Carson’s Letters, Dreams and Other Writings.I reached out to Margaret, who was kind enough to talk to me about her translation in detail over a series of emails.
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