The Magic World of Leonora Carrington at OJMCHE
*The event has already taken place on this date: Sun, 10/13/2024
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July 7 – October 13, 2024
Carrington rebelled against the societal expectations she encountered as an upper-class young woman born in Lancashire, England. She balked at the rules of her boarding schools, bored by the seemingly endless series of debutante balls. Her interests, instead, lay in Irish fables, and English writers such as Lewis Carroll, Jonathan Swift, and Beatrix Potter.
In 1937 Carrington began a relationship with Max Ernst. Ernst was arrested by the Gestapo, escaped, and fled to New York, leaving a devastated Carrington behind. She was institutionalized in Spain before making her way to Mexico, where she eventually married photographer Emerico “Chiki” Weisz, a Hungarian Jewish refugee. Over the course of her eight-decade career, Carrington explored the mystery of the world around her, claiming at the end of her life, “The only thing I know, is that I don’t know.”
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