The artist Aurèlia Muñoz (Barcelona, 1926−2011) is a key figure in the renewal of textile art in Europe. Her body of work constitutes a bridge between tradition and the avantgarde, and between craft and sculpture, through which she succeeded in placing an ancient language – weaving – at the heart of artistic experimentation. The title of the exhibition, Aurèlia Muñoz. Beings, refers to one of the fundamental concepts in the artist’s work, her own description of these ambiguous and chimerical beings that straddle the human, animal and plant realms, and which she represents in an inexhaustible profusion of plural and ungendered characters, animated textile bodies, self-supporting garments, plant architectures, anemones and kites that inhabit her astonishing imaginary.
The publication features a richly illustrated survey of Muñoz’s oeuvre over five decades of her career and a selection of essays by the members of the curatorial team – Manuel Cirauqui, Rosa Lleó and Sílvia Ventosa Muñoz – and by the ethnographer Ana María Ramo Affonso and the theorist Melody Jue.
Jointly published by the MACBA Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona and the Museo Reina Sofía, this publication is available in three separate editions in Catalan, Spanish and English.
