Leonora Carrington. Kadunud sürrealist I Kumu Dokumentaal
Schedule
Wed Sep 18 2024 at 06:00 pm
UTC+03:00Location
Weizenbergi 34, 10127 Tallinn, Estonia | Tallinn, HA
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Rež Teresa GriffithsSuurbritannia 2017, 58 min
Inglise keeles
Briti päritolu Leonora Carrington (1917–2011) on üks huvitavamaid sürrealistlikke maalikunstnikke ja kirjanikke. Enamiku oma elust veetis Carrington Mehhikos, kuhu ta Teise maailmasõja ajal põgenes. Carringtoni 100. sünniaastapäevaks BBC loodud ülevaatlikus eluloolises filmis saavad sõna nii Carrington ise kui ka tema lähedased. Film pälvis 2018. aastal Suurbritannias Griersoni parima kunstidokumentaali auhinna.
Leonora Carrington pärines jõukast ja mõjukast briti kõrgklassi perest. Juba lapsena ei allunud ta reeglitele ning eiras sotsiaalseid norme. Perekond ootas seisusekohast käitumist ja head abielu, kuid mässumeelne noor naine lasi ennast järjest katoliiklikest internaatkoolidest välja visata. Vanemate loal asus Carrington lõpuks Londonis kunsti õppima – seal kohtus ta sürrealisti Max Ernstiga (1891–1976). Kahe kunstniku tormiline kooselu, esmalt Pariisis ja siis Lõuna-Prantsusmaal, rikastas loominguliselt mõlemat osapoolt.
Teise maailmasõja puhkedes langes Max Ernst sakslasena Euroopas põlu alla ja arreteeriti. Carrington elas läbi närvivapustuse ja raskeima perioodi oma elus, kui viibis vanemate korraldusel Hispaanias vaimuhaiglas, kus läbielatud õudused kummitasid teda kogu hilisema elu. Tal õnnestus siiski haiglast välja saada ning tänu Madridis kohatud mehhiklasest sõbrale emigreeruda Ameerika Ühendriikidesse ja sealt edasi Mehhikosse, millest saigi tema uus kodu.
Kui Carringtoni kirjutised meenutavad Kafkat, Buñueli ja Poe’d, siis tema maalid sarnanevad Boschi ja Bruegeli fantaasiatega. Nende dešifreerimiseks on kasutatud kõikvõimalikke esoteerilisi süsteeme, kaasa arvatud keldi mütoloogia, alkeemia, astroloogia, taro, Jungi arhetüübid ja Mehhiko põlisrahvaste traditsioonid. Kuid Carrington lisas oma sümboolikasse alati personaalse aspekti, teatava feminiinse maagia. Tema maalid ja kirjutised tegelevad sageli naise argipäevaga, nende tegevuspaigaks on magamistuba või aed, tihti ka köök, sest Carringtoni jaoks olid nii söögitegemine kui ka kunst alkeemilised protsessid.
Filmiõhtu on osa näituse „Ajalugu ja müstika. Ladina-Ameerika kunst ja Euroopa“ ning sellega kaasneva projektiruumi näituse „Leonora Carrington“ publikuprogrammist.
Eng:
Leonora Carrington: The Lost Surrealist
Dir Teresa Griffiths
United Kingdom 2017, 58 min
In English
British-born Leonora Carrington (1917–2011) was one of the most interesting surrealist painters and writers. She spent most of her life in Mexico, where she fled to during the Second World War. The BBC’s documentary celebrates the 100th anniversary of Carrington’s birth and features Leonora Carrington herself, as well as people close to her. In 2018, the film received the Grierson British Documentary Award for Best Art Documentary.
Leonora Carrington came from a wealthy and influential upper-class British family. Even as a child, she disobeyed rules and flouted social norms, much to the disappointment of her parents, who expected her to behave in a manner appropriate to her social standing and marry well. The rebellious young woman was expelled from several Catholic boarding schools before, with her parents’ permission, she eventually took up art studies in London. There she met the surrealist artist Max Ernst (1891–1976). The tumultuous partnership of the two artists, first in Paris and then in the south of France, enriched and inspired the creative lives of both.
At the outbreak of the Second World War, Max Ernst, as a German, was vilified in Europe and arrested. Carrington suffered a nervous breakdown and went through the most difficult period of her life, when, on the orders of her parents, she was confined to a mental asylum in Spain. The horrors of the institution haunted her for the rest of her life. She managed to get out of the asylum and, with the help of a Mexican friend she had met in Madrid, she emigrated to the United States and from there to Mexico, which became her new home. Carrington lived in Mexico City for nearly seven decades, occasionally visiting New York.
While Carrington’s writings are reminiscent of Kafka, Buñuel and Poe, her paintings evoke the fantasies of Bosch and Bruegel. All sorts of esoteric systems have been used to decipher them, including Celtic mythology, alchemy, astrology, Tarot, Jungian archetypes and indigenous Mexican traditions. Yet Carrington always added a personal aspect to the symbols she used: a certain feminine magic. Her paintings and writings often deal with a woman’s everyday life: they are often set in bedrooms, gardens or kitchens, because both cooking and art were alchemical processes for her.
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Weizenbergi 34, 10127 Tallinn, Estonia, August Weizenbergi 34, Kesklinn, Tallinn, 10127 Harju Maakond, Eesti,Tallinn, EstoniaEvent Location & Nearby Stays:
