{"product_id":"marta-palau-naualli-centinelas-marzo-abril-1993","title":"Marta Palau: Naualli-Centinelas: Marzo-Abril, 1993","description":"\u003cp\u003eMéxico, D.F: Galería de Arte Mexicano, 1993.  24 pages: color illustrations; 26 cm. Exterior mildly soiled; else tight and clean within, Very good. Paperback.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn Spanish. Catalan-born Mexican textile sculptor (Albesa, Lleida, 1934 – Mexico City, 2022), brought to Mexico at six by parents exiled under Franco. Trained at La Esmeralda (INBA), Mexico City, 1955–1965; turned to fiber only after studying with Josep Grau-Garriga in Barcelona in the 1960s, the weaver who also worked with Miró and Tàpies. Early tapestries such as the Ilerda series pushed woven wool and jute off the wall and into three dimensions. They also made her one of the first Mexican artists to address women’s and immigrants’ experience. From the mid-1980s she recast her sculptures as Indigenous magical objects. From 1990 the Naualli (Nahuatl: sorcerer or witch) became her constant motif, worked in plant fiber, earth, clay and salt. Rita Eder called the work “anti-technological”, set against Sheila Hicks’s interest in the backstrap loom. She also built institutions: from 1982 she organized the Salón Michoacano del Textil en Miniatura, and in 2010 she received the Premio Nacional de Ciencias y Artes in Fine Arts. In Tijuana, her base in later years, she founded the Bienal Internacional de Estandartes. Curator Cuauhtémoc Medina called her Mexico’s “greatest textile sculptor.” Her reputation is still rising after her death: the Museu Tàpies retrospective My Paths Are Earthly, her first major international show since 2022, then travelled to the Museo Universitario Arte Contemporáneo (MUAC) in Mexico City. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Palau, Marta; Galería de Arte Mexicano (Mexico City, Mexico)","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51001457082626,"sku":"107016","price":39.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0675\/4412\/1602\/files\/107016_7d5ac6f3-eef1-4b7a-b093-c4753f93d57f.jpg?v=1794174340","url":"https:\/\/bibliope.com\/products\/marta-palau-naualli-centinelas-marzo-abril-1993","provider":"Bibliope","version":"1.0","type":"link"}