ExhibitionDecember 22, 2022
Madalena Santos Reinbolt at The Museum of Art of São Paulo - MASP
The Museu de Arte de São Paulo Assis Chanteubriand (MASP) features from November 25, 2022 to February 26, 2023 the first solo exhibition of Madalena Santos Reinbolt (1919 - 977) entitled: Madalena Santos Reinbolt: uma cabeça cheia de planetas (Madalena Santos Reinbolt: A Head Full of Planets).
The exhibition was curated by Amanda Carneiro and André Mesquita and includes 44 works produced between 1950 and 1970. The Bahia-born artist is known for her complex embroideries with hundreds of colors, but she also worked with media as ceramic and painting. Starting in the 1950s, Santos Reinbolt dedicated herself to pictorial production, drawing abstract figures on unusual supports such as paper or straw. Later, materiality became relevant in her work and in the late 1960s the artist began her unique "wool paintings". Thus, the needle became an extension of her hand like a brush in painting.
Her work remained aside from the Brazilian art scene, and it was only in her later years that it attracted attention as a narrative of characters, landscapes and ordinary situations. Therefore, the MASP aims to open a debate about her history and his contribution to Brazilian art in the context of the bicentennial of Brazil's independence.
The exhibition was curated by Amanda Carneiro and André Mesquita and includes 44 works produced between 1950 and 1970. The Bahia-born artist is known for her complex embroideries with hundreds of colors, but she also worked with media as ceramic and painting. Starting in the 1950s, Santos Reinbolt dedicated herself to pictorial production, drawing abstract figures on unusual supports such as paper or straw. Later, materiality became relevant in her work and in the late 1960s the artist began her unique "wool paintings". Thus, the needle became an extension of her hand like a brush in painting.
Her work remained aside from the Brazilian art scene, and it was only in her later years that it attracted attention as a narrative of characters, landscapes and ordinary situations. Therefore, the MASP aims to open a debate about her history and his contribution to Brazilian art in the context of the bicentennial of Brazil's independence.
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