2017 of Private and Public

These drawings, of light line, obtained by lime with charcoal paper, as if it were a text typed with machine type or marking, like cloths before cutting patterns, explore the non-visions of private rooms. They accompanied the work “Blok2Apartament8” of my heteronym Almira Olmayan, in the exhibition, "Heteronyms: of an intersection of processes", at the Maristany Art Centre in 2017.

2008 Under the skin

Following the collection of art books made in conjunction with poets, these drawings also explore the dialogue between the greys of graphite and the interventions of elements of the textile language, forming pages of velvet and tarlatan transparencies that I will also incorporate into the action book dedicated to Carles Hac Mor, or at the “AntiKeres” book of the “Trilogy of privacy” project.

ROUTE
2018 - Hamburg Artist Book Fair, Germany.
2017 / 2011 / 2010 - Arts Libris, Art Book Fair, Barcelona, Catalonia.
2010 - Liberisliber, Besalú, Catalonia - Print, Madrid.
2008 - MX Espai 1010. CAT, Barcelona, Catalonia.

2006 Behind the mirror

The drawings that make up "Behind the mirror" are a fusion of gestural lines and light line, a procedure that I have continued to work on. They were published for the magazine that the TePeKaLe Art Center edited for the 2006 Inventory.

ROUTE
2006 - TePeKaLe Edition, inventory 2006, Barcelona, Catalonia.

1999 Minerva

With these drawings I begin the collaboration with poets, now accompanied by Toni Clapés, for the edition of art books. Made with a mixed technique, inks and waxes, they want to put in the figures of the woman, the horse and the fish the visual gesture also linked by the remembrance in the work and readings of William Blake.

ROUTE
2018 - Hamburg Artist Book Fair, Germany.
2017 / 2011 / 2010 - Arts Libris, Art Book Fair, Barcelona, ​​Catalonia.
2010 - Liberisliber, Besalú, Catalonia - Print, Madrid.
1999 - MX Espai 1010. CAT, Barcelona, ​​Catalonia.

1990 Drawn territories

These two series explore the territory of drawing by the hand of very fine metal cables as if it were a pencil with an infinite graffiti mine who wanted to three-dimensionalize in the air the gestures we leave on paper when we draw with
a pencil. Some of these drawings would incorporate elements that will appear in 1996 in the sculptures of the series "Perfidious Profiles" and in 2017 in the installation "of Navigation and Cataloguing".

ROUTE
2001 - Sala Conciliare in Celle Ligure, France.
1996 - Casino of Cadaqués, Catalonia.
1990 - Piscolabis Gallery. Barcelona, Catalonia.
Other territories
1987 - Stov Gallery, Amsterdam. Netherlands.

1973 Pencil London
span lang="EN-GB">These drawings were made during a long stay in London in 1973. I want to be precise, where my interest in everyday objects, such as desktop or kitchenware, announce all my subsequent work on sculptures and installations where the private is a reference centre for the works and one of the main axes so far.

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As a private collection, it was exhibited in 2003 at the MX Espai in Barcelona and in 2017 a part was donated to be part of the “of Navigation and Cataloguing” installation at the Maristany Art Centre in Sant Cugat , Catalonia.

Drawn territories

These works, some of them large format, are drawings that go beyond their own techniques.

They take the language of the high class as a tool of construction and its materials as expressive elements apart from the strictly formal functions.

They reflect the medieval legacy of tapestry recovered by Jean Lurçat and recurretly updated by the Lausanne Biennials.

They are drawings or writings that, like in the tapestry, the relationship with space in some pieces is also part of the dialogue that takes place between the elements that make them up.

In this works wefts and warps overlap in transparency as if the loom that supported them had never existed, or trunks and cones of various threads, open and pressed by an imaginary press, want to convey to us the non-limits of the drawn territories.

ROUTE
Women of Barcelona
1988 - 6ª International Triennale of Tapestry, Central Museum of Textiles, Lodz, Poland.
1983 - Sirga’83, Palau de la Metal·lúrgia, Barcelona, Catalonia.
1983 - Sala Montcada, “La Caixa”. Barcelona. Catalonia.
1982 - “La Caixa”. Manresa, Catalonia.
1981 - Lleonart Gallery. Barcelona, Catalonia.
Edith
1983 - Sala Montcada, “La Caixa”. Barcelona. Catalonia.
1982 - “La Caixa”. Manresa, Catalonia.
1981 - Lleonart Gallery. Barcelona, Catalonia.
Listening
1992 - Palace of the Virreina. Barcelona. Catalonia
1983 - Sala Montcada, “La Caixa”. Barcelona. Catalonia.
1982 - “La Caixa”. Manresa. Catalonia.
1981 - Lleonart Gallery. Barcelona, Catalonia.
Writing
1983 - Sala Montcada, “La Caixa”. Barcelona. Catalonia.
1982 - “La Caixa”. Manresa. Catalonia.
1981 - Lleonart Gallery. Barcelona, Catalonia.
Pallets
1983 - Sala Montcada, “La Caixa”. Barcelona. Catalonia.
1982 - “La Caixa”. Manresa. Catalonia.
1981 - Lleonart Gallery. Barcelona, Catalonia.

Corporeal

These sculptural pieces maintain the concept of the tapestry, as a work of large format, made with textiles and a specific technique, but already in many cases subverting the language that is its own, well in the measures, leaving the wall, or the fabric on the high ledge.

Scanning will be the warp that will support a plot that will set up new symbolic visualizations:

- a white rhombus as a point symbol or a linen piece unfolded and with stitches sewn in childhood, will be part of female body.
- a bed that when presented vertically shows us a gutted interior and a woven front between the embroidery and the tapestry, and with spindles spinning maternal genealogies.
- a coat that refers us to the absurdity of the fashion world, or a jacket showing in its construction process itself and in the patterns that make it up, the game of the subversion of languages.
- hats that, like a print made with the ancestral gesture of the fabric, also put, as a central element of the piece, the idea of the body.

ROUTE
White rhombus
1972 - Madrid Athenaeum Prize. Young Room. Madrid.
Coat
1990 - Sala Europa in Lleida and Barcelona. Catalonia.
1985 - Pension Fund Foundation. Tribute to Sonia Delaunay. Granollers.
1983 - Sala Montcada, “La Caixa”. Barcelona. Catalonia.
1982 - “La Caixa”. Manresa. Catalonia.
1981 - Lleonart Gallery. Barcelona, Catalonia.
Jacket
1987 - Spaces. Center for Contemporary Art. Girona. Catalonia.
1985 - Pension Fund Foundation. Tribute to Sonia Delaunay. Granollers.
1983 - Sala Montcada, “La Caixa”. Barcelona. Catalonia.
1982 - “La Caixa”. Manresa. Catalonia.
1981 - Lleonart Gallery. Barcelona, Catalonia.
Bed
2011 - De l’Ombre à la Lumière, Musée Jean-Lurçat, Angers, France.
1983 - Sala Montcada, “La Caixa”. Barcelona. Catalonia.
1982 - “La Caixa”. Manresa. Catalonia.
1981 - Lleonart Gallery. Barcelona, Catalonia.
Bee stitch
1987 - Antimoda Fashion. Spaces. Center for Contemporary Art. Girona. Catalonia.
1985 - We read shoes. Caja de Barcelona. Catalonia.
1985 - Pension Fund Foundation. Tribute to Sonia Delaunay. Granollers.
1983 - Sala Montcada, “La Caixa”. Barcelona. Catalonia.
1982 - “La Caixa”. Manresa. Catalonia.
The hat
1991 Cerç Gallery, Reus, Tarragona. Catalonia.

Calligraphies

In this group of pieces, warp and weft come together to explore the architectural possibilities that the art of tapestry has in itself from the elements that make it up and in its historical function as an object related to living spaces.

They are works that tri-dimension elements of the tapestry language, a naked craft, where each gesture is visible, and it is in the exploration of this gesture that we can follow with our eyes the spiral thread that welcomes the idea of movement.

Gestures that scan the threads as if they were infinite calligraphy that wanted to describe the idea of time inscribed in a small part of a Gothic tapestry.

A counterpoint between the guidelines of tradition and a dynamic that will also give artisanal processes the authority of artistic language without losing the conceptual contents.

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Calligraphies
1985-86 -Europalia 85. Belgium. Department of Culture of Generalitat de Catalunya.
1984 - National Textile Art Exhibition. Aranjuez.
Capital and arches
1987 - Stov Gallery. Amsterdam. Netherlands
Column
1988 - Cloister. Pension Fund Foundation. Barcelona. Catalonia.
1987 - Stov Gallery. Amsterdam. Netherlands.
Double arch
1987 - Stov Gallery. Amsterdam. Netherlands.
Arc d’Olot
1989 - Art Gallery Figueres. Girona. Catalonia.
Oregano
1989 - Art Gallery Figueres. Girona. Catalonia.
Urgell's door
1989 - Art Gallery Figueres. Girona. Catalonia.
Thyme
1989 - Art Gallery Figueres. Girona. Catalonia.
Wheat door
1989 - Art Gallery Figueres. Girona. Catalonia.
1993 - Phare Sud. Mussée Fleury. Lodeve/Gruissan. France.

Cartographies

The loom, the industrial and the artisan, and everything that has represented socially and culturally in the world of the textile, has also been center of my interest, for that reason in some pieces incorporate it in format frame with the will of explore all those aspects that integrate it into the upholstery language, highlighting the production process and the tools as part of the work. That is why also the sequential pieces, the diptychs and triptychs.

In these pieces we find warp and weft making the loom-frame that supports them disappear, but leaving their presence as if they were more embroidered locks or woven altarpieces.

Maps and rivers, villages and margins, fields and fields, landmarks and signs, still reference pieces of my profession as a pattern designer, an observer covered by an unattainable nature, a cartoonist with pencils and threads in her hands.

ROUTE
Maps and rivers
1982 - “La Caixa”. Manresa. Catalonia.
1981 - Lleonart Gallery. Barcelona, Catalonia.
Yellow
1983 - Sala Montcada, “La Caixa”. Barcelona. Catalonia.
1982 - “La Caixa”. Manresa. Catalonia.
1981 - Lleonart Gallery. Barcelona, Catalonia.
Margins
1983 - Sala Montcada, “La Caixa”. Barcelona. Catalonia.
1982 - “La Caixa”. Manresa. Catalonia.
1981 - Lleonart Gallery. Barcelona, Catalonia.
Black
1983 - Sala Montcada, “La Caixa”. Barcelona. Catalonia.
Signal
1998 - MX Espai, Barcelona. Catalonia.
Ceretana moon
1991 - Cerç Gallery, Reus, Tarragona. Catalonia.