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"Ícono" stands out in Remedios Varo's production by its particular structure, built as a medieval altarpiece usually closed to preserve the energy of the image, and open only for specific liturgical feasts. Inside, a winged unicycle is carrying a cylindrical-shaped tower in a starry landscape, natural satellites and birds which evoke a fantastic universe teeming with spiritual allusions. The work depicts mind as substance in ongoing transformation, marked by the implications of contemporary psychology, ancestral rituals, and magic realism derived from the ideas by Russian mystic and writer George Ivanovich Gurdjieff.