"Lam is best-known for agglomerations of elongated and mysterious figures that borrow from cubism and surrealism, although the exhibition also shows different sides of this artist: lushly colored and textured pieces that verge on abstraction, sculptural heads that point toward the artist's African roots, early figurative works, and the weird cacophonies of forms that the artist made through the 1960s and 70s."
"He knew that what he was doing may not have been understandable to the people of the street of even his peers, but that a true picture has the power of the imagination to work, and it just might take a little time, said Beverly Adams, a curator with the MoMA who organized When I Don't Sleep, I Dream alongside MoMA director Christophe Cherix."
MoMA presents a major retrospective titled Wifredo Lam: When I Don't Sleep, I Dream that assembles work spanning the artist’s career. The exhibition reflects years of collaboration and loans from institutions and collectors worldwide and follows a 2015 European retrospective. The presentation foregrounds Lam’s signature elongated, mysterious figures rooted in Cubism and Surrealism while also including lushly colored, textured canvases near abstraction, sculptural heads referencing African roots, early figurative paintings, and experimental, cacophonous forms from the 1960s and 1970s. Curators Beverly Adams and Christophe Cherix led the ambitious project to open new dialogues through this gathering.
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