For me, Remedios Varo's work has always been an important reference. Her sense of symbolism, personal fantasy, the oneiric of her art pieces, communicate with mine in an intimate way. That's why I was very happy to exchange a piece of hers and transfer it to my own story. I started from an idea that I had already drawn some time ago for a physical work and I readapted it for this occasion. Where she focuses on the theme of motherhood, I redrew and appropriated the same symbols and composition to transmute them into the theme of a couple's relationship. In my piece, I speak of possessive love. The moon represents the being that is intended to be possessed. When love becomes an obsession, one wants to keep the light enclosed and isolated on the top floor of a tower in the sky as if that could protect one's feelings from the rest of the world.

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A permutation of Papilla estelar
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A permutation of Papilla estelar

Original cataloguing
ARTIST
Remedios Varo
DaTe
1958
Type of Art
Painting
Format
On board
Medium
Oil paint
Colour
DIMENSIONS
36 x 24 in. (91.4 x 61 cm)
Distinguishing attributes
Location
Possibly private corporate collection.
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