Art postal, 1982
Bound to the tradition of ceramic production in her hometown of Valencia, Carmen Calvo has included it in her work as a feature that is often more pictorial than sculptural. Fascinated by archaeology and its taxonomic systems, Calvo creates diminutive pieces of ceramic and fixes them, whether with glue or sewn with thread, on top of supports such as canvas or paper. In the 1980s she often used letters, commercial paper, accounting registers or postcards, as with the postcard pieces seen here. As she imposed on objects (however small) the values of frontality and the format more typical of painting, aligned and placed one beside another, they take on the character of an alphabet or inventory, behaving like signs of an open, polyvalent and enigmatic narration.
Technical details
- Original title:
- Art postal
- Registration number:
- RT.0201
- Artist:
- Calvo, Carmen
- Date created:
- 1982
- Fonds:
- MACBA Collection. Barcelona City Council long-term. Gift of Rafael Tous (in process of being incorporated)
- Object type:
- Sculpture
- Media:
- Ceramics, rope and ink on Kraft paper
- Dimensions:
- 25 x 19 cm (height x width)
- Credits:
- MACBA Collection. Long-term loan of Barcelona City Council. Gift of Rafael Tous
- Copyright:
- © Carmen Calvo, VEGAP, Barcelona
- It has accessibility resources:
- No
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