Chloe Aridjis on Leonora Carrington

The Great Women Artists

Katy Hessel

Arts

4.8 • 877 Ratings

🗓️ 4 June 2024

⏱️ 40 minutes

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I am so excited to say that my guest on the GWA Podcast is the esteemed writer and novelist, Chloe Aridjis, speaking on her friend, LEONORA CARRINGTON! Born in New York City, raised in the Netherlands and then Mexico City, Aridjis is a writer of numerous award-winning books, including three novels: Book of Clouds, Asunder, and Sea Monsters. Aridjis is also the author of numerous books and essays, including an A–Z profile on the artist we are very excitingly discussing today: Leonora Carrington, the great late British-born painter, who ran away to Paris in her teens before escaping Europe at the outbreak of the Second World War, and settling in Mexico City in the 40s, where she lived until her death in 2011. And it was in Mexico City that Aridjis got to know the surrealist, who she had tea with on Sundays and noted their extroardnary conversations that she published in, among others, Tea and Creatures with Leonora Carrington: A Photo Essay… a beautiful piece that looks at their friendship. In 2015, Aridjis went on to co-curate a major exhibition of Carrington’s work at Tate Liverpool, affirming her as one of the greatest and most relevant artists to today’s world. This episode is going to be slightly different to usual, as back in 2019 – for one of our first ever podcast episodes – we discussed the life of Leonora Carrington with her biographer cousin, Joanna Moorhead. We also discussed Carrington briefly with writer Deborah Levy – so do check those out. But! Today I couldn’t be more excited to be delving into Arjidis’s memories with the artist, uncovering the mystical symbolism that populates her work – from vegetables to cats, eggs to giants, cauldrons to kitchens, underworlds to hybridised figures – her friendships, character, and of course her paintings and writings, too. LINKS: PAINTINGS DISCUSSED –– Giantess, c.1947: https://www.artbook.com/blog-featured-image-leonora-carrington.html Green Tea, 1942: https://www.moma.org/collection/works/297568 And Then We Saw the Daughter of the Minotaur, 1953: https://www.moma.org/collection/works/393384?artist_id=993&page=1&sov_referrer=artist The Magical World of the Maya, 1963: https://maria-cristina.medium.com/great-art-the-magical-world-of-the-maya-by-leonora-carrington-interpretation-and-analysis-b642f8d04cf0 Self Portrait, 1937: https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/492697 Chloe's exhibition: https://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-liverpool/leonora-carrington -- THIS EPISODE IS GENEROUSLY SUPPORTED BY THE LEVETT COLLECTION: https://www.famm.com/en/ https://www.instagram.com/famm.mougins // https://www.merrellpublishers.com/9781858947037 Follow us: Katy Hessel: @thegreatwomenartists / @katy.hessel Sound editing by Nada Smiljanic Music by Ben Wetherfield

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0:00.0	Welcome back to series 11 of the Great Women Artists podcast.
0:05.0	It's great to have you back and do we have an exciting series for you?
0:09.0	But just before we get to this, I am so excited to say that this series is supported by the Levitt Collection,
0:15.0	a vast and varied art collection of which a major portion is dedicated to works by women artists.
0:21.8	Christian Levitt's support for women in the arts is such that after publishing the major book
0:26.4	Abstract Expressionists, The Women in 2023, he will soon be opening the first private museum
0:32.7	in Europe, entirely dedicated to female artists on the 21st of June, 2004, in Mugin near Cannes in
0:41.1	the south of France. FAM, standing for female artists of the Mujan Museum, will unveil to
0:47.4	the public over 100 works created by more than 80 female artists from around the world. The museum
0:53.9	will exhibit a breathtaking array of incredible artworks from the Leveck Collection,
0:58.2	including paintings, sculptures and photographs by top women artists who have marked the major
1:03.3	artistic movements from the 19th century to the present day.
1:07.0	Opening on the 21st of June, tickets are now on sale at www.famm.com.
1:14.4	And in the meantime, stay tuned at at FAM underscore Mujam.
1:19.0	I hope you enjoy this episode.
1:25.5	Hello everyone and welcome to the Great Women Artist podcast with me, Katie Hessel.
1:31.8	Some of you might know me from The Great Women Artists, an Instagram account I set up in October 2015,
1:37.3	which celebrates female artists on a daily basis, ranging from young graduates to old masters.
1:43.4	Well, in a similar fashion to the Instagram,
1:46.1	this podcast is all about celebrating female artists from a variety of backgrounds and histories.
1:51.8	And I am so excited to be interviewing artists on their career or artists, writers, curators,
1:57.4	or general art lovers on the women artist who means most of them.
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