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From the 8th of September to the 24th of November, Manifesta 15 Barcelona Metropolitana presented a comprehensive programme featuring installations, archives and performances by the participants of the edition.
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Xarpellera for La Ricarda
- TypeInstallation
- ParticipantMagda Bolumar Chertó
- VenueCasa Gomis
Xarpellera for La Ricarda, 1966 © Magda Bolumar Chertó. Photo © Manifesta 15 Barcelona Metropolitana / Ivan Erofeev
A prominent contributor to the Informal Art of the 1960s, the Catalan artist Magda Bolumar Chertó envisioned new cosmologies through abstraction. Fascinated by the possibility of connecting the principles of naturally-inspired abstraction with organic textures, Bolumar developed a personal pictorial language. Fusing painting and textile, her Xarpelleres (works on jute) employ knotting, fraying, sewing, tying, braiding and dying to novel ends. Ricardo Gomis Serdañons and his wife Inés Bertrand Mata were captivated by Bolumar’s innovative textile practice and commissioned her most ambitious work for their dining room, where the work still hangs today. An arrangement of dots and flowing lines, the work’s geometric and lyrical composition suggests a musical score, echoing the exceptional music performances that took place at La Ricarda, particularly those organized by Club 49 – a dynamic and prolific association that promoted avant-garde culture in Catalonia against the backdrop of Franco’s dictatorship.
1966
Acrylic, wood, wire, jute
430 × 206 cm
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