A Visit to the Kunstmuseum in Basel, Switzerland to see Paula Rego in Her Power Games

A Visit to the Kunstmuseum in Basel, Switzerland
to see Paula Rego in Her Power Games

 A visit to the Kunstmuseum in Basel was an unforgettable journey into the mind of Paula Rego, whose Power Games exhibit unveils the raw intensity and nuanced beauty of her work.  Her paintings, both fierce and tender, confront the complexities of power, gender, and human nature with profound depth.  To witness her mastery in person was to experience the world through the eyes of an extraordinary woman—her vision, unflinching and unapologetic, left an indelible mark on my soul.  I am inspired!

Thank you to my friend Valda Bailey for taking me here!

For more information visit the website:
www.kunstmuseumbasel.ch/en/exhibitions/2024/paula-rego

All Photographs by Leanne Trivett S. ©

"The fabulous world of Portuguese-British artist Paula Rego enthrals us with a frenzy of images, replete with cryptic humour, and as frankly dramatic as they are poignant. 
Rego’s oeuvre commands enormous power, above all where the fates of women are at stake.

Paula Rego was born in Lisbon. Faced with Antonio de Oliveiro Salazar’s dictatorship, her father decided that Portugal was no country for women. Beginning her studies in London, Rego settled there permanently in 1975. At around this time, she began creating visually striking works using brushes and pastels: Highly derisive, satiric, and theatrical and with an uncanny instinct for storytelling, her subjects are entrapped in fantastic or distressing worlds, plagued by the experiences and conflicts our society continues to inflict on women."
- Curator Eva Reifert, Kunstmuseum Basel