Remedios Varo – Toward Aquarius (1961)

Louisiana poster featuring the work Hacia Acuario (Towards Aquarius), 1961, by Remedios Varo, published in connection with the exhibition of the surrealist, Spanish-Mexican painter Remedios Varo (Sept. 18). Remedios Varo, who declared that "the world of dreams and the real world are the same," attempted in an almost alchemical manner to combine widely different techniques, fantasies, and ideas in her paintings, which have an enigmatic, cinematic character and often incorporate hybrid creatures.

She utilized surrealism's chance-based processes but was simultaneously incredibly precise, meticulous, and classical in her painterly expression and her use of color, which has clear references to Italian painting from the late Middle Ages and early Renaissance.

In the work Hacia Acuario, 1961, Varo depicts a planet with newly awakened generations hesitantly moving forward, accompanied by protective figures – an idea that recurs in other works of hers.