Carmen Laffón. Themes and variations

The Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza presents a major exhibition of the Sevillian painter and sculptor Carmen Laffón (1934-2021). The project, curated by Paula Luengo, Curator and Head of Exhibitions of the museum, is articulated around the very personal figurative world of the artist. The central ideas or motifs she deals with in her compositions return again and again throughout her more than sixty-year career between Madrid, Seville and Sanlúcar de Barrameda, sometimes as variations on the same theme, and in her mature stage in the form of modern series. 

The exhibition features around eighty works, including oil paintings, pastels, charcoal and sculptures (the latter from the mid-90s onwards) organized by sections. Each chapter is dedicated to one of the most frequent classical artistic genres in her work -figure, still life and landscape- and to Carmen Laffon´s own iconographies such as baskets, cupboards, vines, lime o limescale and salt mines.