Paula Rego at Tate Britain
From 7 July 2021, Tate Britain will host the largest retrospective exhibition to date of the work of Paula Rego, a key artist in international figurative art. Born in Lisbon, Paula Rego began painting in the 1950s, when she was admitted to Slade School of Fine Art, in London, the city where she settled permanently in 1976, after spending several years living between Portugal and England.
The exhibition will focus on the extraordinary life of the artist, which had a strong impact on her work, as well as her references and artistic influences, bringing together over a hundred of her works, including paintings, drawings, prints, sculptures and collages, produced between the 1950s and 2010s.
As part of this project, the CAM is lending ten works by the artist from its collection, including the paintings S. Vomiting the Pátria, Manifesto (For a Lost Cause), The Vivian Girls as Windmills, O Tempo – Passado e Presente [Time – Past and Present] and six gouaches from the series Contos Populares Portugueses [Popular Portuguese Tales].
Curated by Elena Crippa and Zuzana Flašková – respectively Curator and Assistant Curator of Modern and Contemporary British Art at Tate Britain – the exhibition will run until 24 October in London before it travels to The Hague in November 2021 and Málaga in 2022.
