Lilia Carrillo: Ruptures and Premonitions Pocket Book

Curated by Tobias Ostrander, Lilia Carrillo: Ruptures and Premonitions presents a selection of the artist’s paintings from 1961, the year her aesthetic language was consolidated, to 1974, the year of her premature death. The ruptures shaping the presentation include both Carrillo’s association with the Generación de la Ruptura, and her formal interests that challenge the stability of the picture plane and emphasize the physicality of the painted surface. The exhibition will survey the artist’s disruptive gestures of building up thick surfaces that she then carved or scratched into, integrating collaged fabrics or paper fragments into her canvases, smudging her compositions, and using brushes of diverse sizes and other tools to apply and disperse her pigments.

Lilia Carrillo (b. 1930, Mexico City) was a central figure within the group of postwar Mexican painters known as the Generación de la Ruptura (the Rupture Generation), and its most prominent female contributor. Carrillo was part of a close circle of artists including her second husband Manuel Felguérez, Fernando García Ponce, Vlady, Vicente Rojo, and Juan Soriano—who all shared an interest in abstraction and entered into an international dialogue with painterly tendencies occurring in New York and Paris including Abstract Expressionism, Lyrical Abstraction, and Informalism.

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Table of contents

• Foreword by Susan Segal
• “Lilia Carrillo, Rupturing” by Aimé Iglesias Lukin
• “Within Ruptures and Premonitions” by Tobias Ostrander
• Works
• Biographies
• Credits
• Acknowledgments

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Price: $5. To purchase this catalog, please contact: art@as-coa.org or order on Amazon.

The exhibition is curated by Tobias Ostrander.

Visual Arts exhibition series editors: Aimé Iglesias Lukin and Karen Marta

Associate editor: Tatiana Marcel