Paula Rego
Folktales and Fairy Tales
Exhibition catalogue Paula Rego: Folktales and Fairy
Tales
The catalogue, which was launched on 23 June 2018 by the writer
Hélia Correia and the art historian Raquel Henriques da Silva,
contains three essays by the authors Sara Graça da Silva
(researcher at the Institute of Studies on Literature and
Tradition, School of Social Sciences and
Humanities, Universidade NOVA de Lisboa), Leonor de
Oliveira (exhibition curator and researcher at the Institute of the
History of Art, School of Social Sciences and
Humanities, Universidade NOVA de Lisboa)
and Catarina Alfaro (exhibition curator andthe Coordinator
of Programming and Conservation, Casa das Histórias
Paula Rego). All the essays go further into researching Paula
Rego's use of folktales and her artistic production connected with
this all-pervasive topic running throughout her work.
The publication includes excerpts of folktales that have fired
the artist's personal imaginary world. She uses stories taken from
original sources (collected by Leite de Vasconcelos; Gonçalo
Fernandes Trancoso, etc.).
Apart from displaying painting, engravings and drawings - where
many of the works being exhibited are seen for the first time, as
for example, a painting produced in 2017 inspired upon a story
about the Countess of Ségur, Sophie's Misfortunes,
the catalogue also includes the artist's notebooks of her drawings
about this tale and others, as well as texts interpreting her most
significant work or series. Furthermore, the catalogue contains
hitherto unpublished documents enhancing recollections of Paula
Rego's most notable milestones when, at the beginning of
her artistic career, she resorted to Portuguese folktales, as shown
in the reports she wrote during a scholarship received from the
Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation.
The catalogue also provides a detailed chronology
contextualising the artist's work related to Greek-Roman mythology,
folktales and fairy tales.
Organised by: Catarina Alfaro and Leonor de
Oliveira
Design: Filipe Silva
Bilingual edition: (Portuguese and English)
Design: Filipe Silva
Published: 2018
Pages: 268
Size: 275 x 200 mm
ISBN: 978-972-8986-94-0