The Debutant and Other Stories
by Leonora Carrington
Published by Silver Press
Sleeve by Tali Lennox
To coincide with the opening of Georgina Pounds Gallery in Mexico City, Tali Lennox contributes her painting, “Peter & The Wolf” to form a detachable sleeve for twenty copies of The Debutante and Other Stories by Leonora Carrington.
“Peter and the Wolf” takes its name from the symphonic folk tale written by Sergei Pokofiev in 1936 in which Peter and his animal friend, each represented by an instrument in the orchestra, capture a wolf despite being warned against playing in the meadow alone. Lennox is unafraid to paint and excavate ancestral tales, unearthing horror chests which may have been hidden, those which cross psychological and physical boundaries to expose internal depths. Through her use of natural openings, volcanos, shells, and here masks, these guises for transformation also become portals for traversing and collapsing the borders between reality and fantasy, the beautiful and grotesque, dissolving into something much more enchanting.
The Book
The first story in the Silver Press collection follows a young debutante who does not want to go to the ball. Opportunely, she enlists the help of her friend, a hyena, and together the pair hatch a plan for the hyena to go in her place. This polite barbarism, likely inspired by Carrington’s refusal to assimilate to English bourgeois society, is illustrated in reverse by the anthropomorphic painting found on the detachable cover. Lennox paints a performance through her signature style: opulent, silvery figures with impenetrable bodies, each wearing an animal mask.
Limited edition of 100.
Pre order now est. send - early March or find us for the signing during Zona Maco book fair in the first week of February