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Copyright the artist | | | Lam, Wifredo (1902 - 1982) Cuba
Lunguanda Yembe, 1950
Oil on canvas; 130.4 x 97 cm Surrealism
UID 102-327
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Biography
Cuban artist who, after finishing his studies in Havana, went to Madrid. In contrast to the majority of other artists, Wifredo Lam did not seem interested in going to Paris, preferring to develop as a painter through the Prado Museum. His family tragedy left deep scars on this artist's work who, in 1938, finally decided to visit Paris, where he came into contact with Picasso's work and that of the other vanguard artists which led him to give up the classic canon. With the outbreak of the Second World War, Lam was forced to return to Cuba, where he painted a world of beings similar to, but more vital than those he had painted in Europe and in multicoloured compositions shimmering with intensity. In 1943, he exhibited his work, La Jungla at the Pierre Matisse Gallery in New York, later acquired by the Museum of Modern Art, and that brought him recognition in the art world. In 1959 and 1964, he took part in Documenta 2 and 3, in Kassel. Lam's paintings are an excellent example of the Surrealist attempt to incorporate African and Caribbean mythology in Western art. The Gods of Cuban legend, voodoo and the dangers of the jungle are the main themes of his work.
Exhibitions
Lam, Recent Works 1950 Parque Central, Cuba 01-01-1950 ~ 31-12-1950
Wifredo Lam Institute of Contemporary Art, United Kingdom 01-01-1952 ~ 30-12-1952
Lam, Peintures Recentes Galerie Maeght Lelong, France 01-01-1953 ~ 31-12-1953
Wifredo Lam Kunstverein (Hamburg), Germany 01-01-1988 ~ 31-12-1989
Wifredo Lam Musée Dapper, France 25-09-2001 ~ 31-01-2002
O Surrealismo na Colecção Berardo - Estranho Desenho Palácio da Galeria, Câmara Municipal de Tavira, Portugal 12-07-2003 ~ 14-09-2003
Corpus: Visions of the Body in The Berardo Collection Centro Cultural de Belém (CCB), Portugal 10-10-2003 ~ 13-03-2004
The Berardo Collection - A Voyage through the 20th Century Sintra Museu de Arte Moderna - Colecção Berardo (SMAM-CB), Portugal 04-12-2004 ~ 30-04-2005
Fernando Lemos and Surrealism - The Berardo Collection Sintra Museu de Arte Moderna - Colecção Berardo (SMAM-CB), Portugal 26-11-2005 ~ 18-06-2006
Phases (Krakow) Galerie Krzystofory, 01-01-1959 ~ 31-12-1959
Phases (Lublin) Lublin, 01-01-1959 ~ 31-12-1959
Phases (Warsawa) Galerie Krzywekolo, 01-01-1959 ~ 31-12-1959
Colecção Berardo Collection 1917-1999 Centro Cultural de Belém (CCB), Portugal 27-01-2000 ~ 27-08-2000
Wilfredo Lam (Düsseldorf) Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany 01-01-1988 ~ 31-12-1989
O Surrealismo na Colecção Berardo - Estranho Desenho, Sintra Sintra Museu de Arte Moderna - Colecção Berardo (SMAM-CB), Portugal 04-07-2001 ~ 30-06-2001
Fernando Lemos e o Surrealismo - Colecção Berardo Centro das Artes Casa das Mudas, Calheta, Madeira, Portugal 08-07-2006 ~ 31-01-2007
Latin American Art in the Berardo Collection Sintra Museu de Arte Moderna - Colecção Berardo (SMAM-CB), Portugal 14-12-2007 ~ 29-02-2008
De Miró à Warhol. La Collection Berardo à Paris Musée du Luxembourg, France 16-10-2008 ~ 22-02-2009
Berardo Museum Opening Museu Colecção Berardo, Portugal 25-06-2007 ~ 24-08-2008
Paradise Motel Museu Colecção Berardo, Portugal 13-11-2010 ~ 26-12-2011
Sous la Dictée de L’image Museu Colecção Berardo, Portugal 01-03-2010 ~ 26-05-2010
Tudo o que é Sólido Museu Colecção Berardo, Portugal 07-06-2010 ~ 12-09-2010
Bibliography
A. Breton, Le Surréalisme et la Peinture, 1965 Published by Gallimard
Colecção Berardo Collection 1917-1999, 2000 Published by CCB - Centro Cultural de Belém ISBN 972817652X
Corpus: Visions of the Body in The Berardo Collection, 2003 Published by CCB - Centro Cultural de Belém ISBN 9728176856
Edda, 1959
Fernando Lemos and Surrealism , 2005 Published by Sintra Museu de Arte Moderna - Colecção Berardo ISBN 9729903026
Fernando Lemos e o Surrealismo – Colecção Berardo, 2006 Published by Centro das Artes - Casa das Mudas ISBN 9728902034
Islas no. 1, 1966 Published by Revista de la Universidad Central de las Villas
Lam, 1970 Published by Fratelli Fabbri
LAM métis, 2001 Published by Ed. Dapper
Le Surréalisme, 1966 Published by Editions Rencontre
Les Demeures d' Hypnos, Éditions de la Différence, 1976
Medium, 1950
O Surrealismo na Colecção Berardo - Estranho Desenho, 2001 Published by Sintra Museu de Arte Moderna - Colecção Berardo ISBN 9729742847
O Surrealismo na Colecção Berardo - Estranho Desenho, 2003 Published by Palácio da Galeria, Câmara Municipal de Tavira ISBN 9728705050
Territórios Singulares na Colecção Berardo, 2002 Published by Sintra Museu de Arte Moderna - Colecção Berardo ISBN 972974288X
Wilfredo Lam, 1950 Published by La Habana, Publicaciones del Ministerio de Educación
Wilfredo Lam Published by Kunstsammlung Nordrhein Westfalen, Düsseldorf; Kunstverein
Wilfredo Lam, 1976 Published by Barcelona / Paris
Wilfredo Lam, 1989 Published by Barcelona / Paris
Wilfredo Lam Catalogue Raisonné of the Painted Work Vol I 1923-1960 Published by Édition Acatos, France
Wilfredo Lam Xxe Siècle, 1979 Published by Special Issue
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