Magali Lara. Five Decades in Spiral
Following the notion of the endless spiral, we present a retrospective of Magali Lara’s (Mexico City, 1985) body of work in reverse-chronological order. This exhibition and its accompanying publication examine Lara’s artistic and spatial explorations throughout her career, as well as the way in which she conceives and constructs formal spaces—that are nonetheless emotionally loaded—in order to lend shape to a territory of her own. This exhibition features much of the research that Lara has accomplished over the past five decades: from her recent murals, paintings and artist’s books, to her work with photographs, ceramics, drawings and printmaking from the 1970s.
As one of the most relevant practitioners of painting in Latin America today, Magali Lara seeks to create unique personal environments where the objects or landscapes depicted are never what they seem, as she reroutes their meaning to another interpretation: flowers are not merely flowers, nor are words or colors.
- Authors
- Virginia Roy, Maggie Borowitz, Magali Lara, Cuauhtémoc Medina
- Editor
- MUAC, UNAM / RM
- Language
- Spanish & English
- Format
- 22 x 16 cm
- Edition
- 2025
- Extension
- 216 p.
- Price
- $400
- ISBN UNAM
- 978-607-587-260-5
