Within the exhibition programme dedicated to the collection of Blanca and Borja Thyssen-Bornemisza, the museum presents the work of Anna Weyant (Calgary, 1995). This is the artist’s first monographic exhibition in a museum, and includes some twenty paintings selected from her most recent work.
Weyant’s works display a wealth of artistic references ranging from the Baroque to the art of the first half of the 20th century, periods well represented in the Thyssen Museum. These works dialogue with the selection of paintings from the permanent collection that are exhibited alongside them.
Known for her paintings starring young women, Weyant captures a world suspended between the dreamlike and the everyday, in a figurative style well shaped by artistic tradition. His enigmatic iconography refers both to contemporary American popular culture and to movements of the modernity of interwar as surrealism.
