The work ‘Alice in Wonderland’ from Lewis Carroll arrives at CaixaForum Madrid in the form of an exhibition that is “a dream trip” to the origins the adaptations and artistic reinventions of the work starring a “modern heroine,” the museum details in a statement.
‘Alicia’s worlds. Dream the Wonderland ‘which has five thematic areas through 283 objects and works of art-in addition to parallel activities-is the first exhibition on the phenomenon generated by the two books of Carroll-created 160 years ago-that has reached both cinematographic adaptations and fashion, literature, photography, plastic arts, to the design or science.
All this, through the art and design collections of Victoria and Albert Museum in London, whose creation was Victoriana coincides practically over time with the publication of Alicia’s first book.
“He has never stopped printing and has resulted in more than 170 languages. The exhibition offers different answers to why a Victorian character is so significant. The culture that led to its writing and the reason why the themes and ideas that are reflected in it continue to be relevant today are also subject to analysis. One of the questions that arise in the exhibition is why this character pushes us to be more creative, To be more curious Already question the established norms, “CaixaForum has detailed.
Thus, the sample follows the narrative structure of the 12 chapters of ‘Alicia in Wonderland’ and is divided into five thematic sections that correspond to ‘The invention of Alicia’, ‘through the screen’, ‘Alicia, door to other worlds’, ‘Alicia on stage’ and ‘become Alice’.
At the beginning of the exhibition, Visitors will descend through the rabbit burrow In a visual game full of books, which then connects with a new scenario that emulates a Victorian library.
This first stage of the sample is deepened in the background and the literary, social and political context that surrounded the creation of Alicia in Wonderland and its sequel to Carroll.
It is followed by the second stay, which reflects the way in which the story became popular among the filmmakers, since aphincipations of the twentieth century, the cinema began to become the main form of popular entertainment and the new medium allowed Alicia to reach a broader and more global audience.
Then, in the third space, it focuses on Alice’s influence on the popular artistic, musical and cultural creation, while on the one hand the emergence of surrealism is exposed in the twenties; On the other, he delves into the sixties, with all the transformations he brought with him.
In addition, the exhibition includes the testimony of works of art on this story by artists such as Salvador Dalí, Max Ernst, Yayoi Kusama, Paula Rego, Aldous Huxley, in addition to Peter Blake, Edward Burra, Marion Adnams, John Craxton y Ralph Steadmanamong others.