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Ana Mendieta

Search for Origin

MUSAC, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León, Spain

January 27 – May 19, 2024

Exhibition view, “Ana Mendieta. Search for Origin”, MUSAC, 2024 © The Estate of Ana Mendieta Collection, LLC. Courtesy The Estate of Ana Mendieta Collection, LLC and Galerie Lelon & CO./ Vegap, Madrid, 2024
Exhibition view, “Ana Mendieta. Search for Origin”, MUSAC, 2024 (from left to right) Untitled: Silueta Series, Mexico, 1976, Untitled: Silueta Series, 1977 © The Estate of Ana Mendieta Collection, LLC. Courtesy The Estate of Ana Mendieta Collection, LLC and Galerie Lelong & CO./ Vegap, Madrid, 2024
Exhibition view, “Ana Mendieta. Search for Origin”, MUSAC, 2024 Anima, 1982 © The Estate of Ana Mendieta Collection, LLC. Courtesy The Estate of Ana Mendieta Collection, LLC and Galerie Lelong & CO./ Vegap, Madrid, 2024
Exhibition view, “Ana Mendieta. Search for Origin”, MUSAC, 2024 Untitled: Silueta Series, 1978 © The Estate of Ana Mendieta Collection, LLC. Courtesy The Estate of Ana Mendieta Collection, LLC and Galerie Lelong & CO./ Vegap, Madrid, 2024
Exhibition view, “Ana Mendieta. Search for Origin”, MUSAC, 2024 Untitled: Silueta Series, 1978 (detail) © The Estate of Ana Mendieta Collection, LLC. Courtesy The Estate of Ana Mendieta Collection, LLC and Galerie Lelong & CO./ Vegap, Madrid, 2024
Exhibition view, “Ana Mendieta. Search for Origin”, MUSAC, 2024 (from left to right) Energy Charge, 1975; Anima, Silueta de Cohetes (Firework Piece), 1976 © The Estate of Ana Mendieta Collection, LLC. Courtesy The Estate of Ana Mendieta Collection, LLC and Galerie Lelong & CO./ Vegap, Madrid, 2024
Exhibition view, “Ana Mendieta. Search for Origin”, MUSAC, 2024 (from left to right) Black Venus, 1980; La Venus Negra, 1981 © The Estate of Ana Mendieta Collection, LLC. Cortesía The Estate of Ana Mendieta Collection, LLC y Galerie Lelong & CO./ Vegap, Madrid, 2024
Exhibition view, “Ana Mendieta. Search for Origin”, MUSAC, 2024 (from left to right): Itiba Cahubaba (Esculturas Rupestres), 1981; Atabey (Esculturas Rupestres), 1981; Guacar (Esculturas Rupestres), 1981; Guanaroca (Esculturas Rupestres), 1981 © The Estate of Ana Mendieta Collection, LLC. Courtesy The Estate of Ana Mendieta Collection, LLC and Galerie Lelong & CO./ Vegap, Madrid, 2024
Exhibition view, “Ana Mendieta. Search for Origin”, MUSAC, 2024  Untitled, 1985 © The Estate of Ana Mendieta Collection, LLC. Courtesy The Estate of Ana Mendieta Collection, LLC and Galerie Lelong & CO./ Vegap, Madrid, 2024
Exhibition view, “Ana Mendieta. Search for Origin”, MUSAC, 2024. (Front) Anima, 1982 (Background, left to right) 2024 (En primer plano) Ocean Bird (Washup), 1974; Corazón de Roca con Sangre, 1975 © The Estate of Ana Mendieta Collection, LLC. Cortesía The Estate of Ana Mendieta Collection, LLC y Galerie Lelong & CO./ Vegap, Madrid, 2024
Exhibition view, “Ana Mendieta. Search for Origin”, MUSAC, 2024 Sandwoman,
Exhibition view, “Ana Mendieta. Search for Origin”, MUSAC, 2024 2024 Sandwoman, 1983 © The Estate of Ana Mendieta Collection, LLC. Cortesía The Estate of Ana Mendieta Collection, LLC y Galerie Lelong & CO./ Vegap, Madrid, 2024
Exhibition view, “Ana Mendieta. Search for Origin”, MUSAC, 2024 Untitled [Sin título], c. 1970-1971; De película, c. 1969; Untitled (Portrait of Raquel Oti), 1969; Untitled (Self- Portrait), 1970 © The Estate of Ana Mendieta Collection, LLC. Cortesía The Estate of Ana Mendieta Collection, LLC y Galerie Lelong & CO./ Vegap, Madrid, 2024
Exhibition view, “Ana Mendieta. Search for Origin”, MUSAC, 2024. From left to right: Furrows, 1984; Untitled: Silueta Series, Iowa, 1976-1978; Untitled: Silueta Series, Iowa,1979; Untitled: Silueta Series, 1979 © The Estate of Ana Mendieta Collection, LLC. Courtesy The Estate of Ana Mendieta Collection, LLC and Galerie Lelong & CO./ Vegap, Madrid, 2024
Exhibition view, “Ana Mendieta. Search for Origin”, MUSAC, 2024. From left to right: Furrows, 1984; Untitled: Silueta Series, Iowa, 1976-1978; Untitled: Silueta Series, Iowa,1979; Untitled: Silueta Series, 1979 © The Estate of Ana Mendieta Collection, LLC. Courtesy The Estate of Ana Mendieta Collection, LLC and Galerie Lelong & CO./ Vegap, Madrid, 2024
Exhibition view, “Ana Mendieta. Search for Origin”, MUSAC, 2024. Náñigo Burial, 1976/2024 © The Estate of Ana Mendieta Collection, LLC. Courtesy The Estate of Ana Mendieta Collection, LLC and Galerie Lelong & CO./ Vegap, Madrid, 2024
Exhibition view, “Ana Mendieta. Search for Origin”, MUSAC, 2024. Náñigo Burial, 1976/2024 © The Estate of Ana Mendieta Collection, LLC. Courtesy The Estate of Ana Mendieta Collection, LLC and Galerie Lelong & CO./ Vegap, Madrid, 2024
Exhibition view, “Ana Mendieta. Search for Origin”, MUSAC, 2024 © The Estate of Ana Mendieta Collection, LLC. Courtesy The Estate of Ana Mendieta Collection, LLC and Galerie Lelon & CO./ Vegap, Madrid, 2024

Press Release

Galerie Lelong & Co. is pleased to announce that Ana Mendieta: Search for Origin is on view at MUSAC, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León, Spain through May 19, 2024. 

Over one hundred of Mendieta's works made between 1968 and 1985 are on view. A dozen works have never before been exhibited, including four early paintings, photographs from recently discovered slides, drawings from the artist's archive and a reconstruction of the "environment" Untitled: Silueta Series, originally created at the Amelie A. Wallace Gallery, State University of New York, Old Westbury, Long Island in 1978.

The exhibition is conceived by MO.CO Montpellier Contemporain, France, and co-produced with MUSAC, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León, in collaboration with Musée des beaux-arts La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland. 

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