Marta Moreno

Hanabi No. 5, Contemporary Art, Textile Art, 21st Century

2024

Marta Moreno is a textile artist based in Mexico City who embraces embroidery as her primary medium of expression. What began in childhood as a playful activity has evolved into a po...

Marta Moreno is a textile artist based in Mexico City who embraces embroidery as her primary medium of expression. What began in childhood as a playful activity has evolved into a po...

Marta Moreno is a textile artist based in Mexico City who embraces embroidery as her primary medium of expression. What began in childhood as a playful activity has evolved into a po...

Marta Moreno is a textile artist based in Mexico City who embraces embroidery as her primary medium of expression. What began in childhood as a playful activity has evolved into a po...

Suzanne Caporael No. 003, 2008 Collage on paper 4 3/4 x 7 inches 12.1 x 17.8 cm signed lower right verso (MMG#18886) $4,000 -- Caporael continues her profound exploration of the na...

Embroidered textile painting Unique work Penelope or Parque of modern times, Barbara d’Antuono sews by hand like others recite mantras and decides nothing in advance. She lets images arise without any particular coherence with each other, but to which she gives substance in a kind of urgency, in the form of a strip not drawn but sewn. The exhibition, like the eponymous book, covers seven years of this assiduous and patient work through nearly 30 textile works, real freeze frames made of the emotions and memories of the artist, like so many portraits of humanity. . Her meeting in Haiti with Baron...

Hand sewn textile painting Unique piece Signed and dated lower left by the artist

Mathieu Matégot (1910-2001) Sans titre c.1950s wool tapestry, Manufactura de Tapeçarias de Portalegre 150 x 70 cm signed ‘Matégot’ and with the Manufactura de Tapeçarias de Portalegre monogram (lower right) Price: $11,000 USD Provenance: Barry Friedman Ltd, New York (stock no. BF21324) Notes: Mathieu Matégot was a Hungarian-born French designer, architect and artist. After studying at Budapest's School of Fine Arts in 1929, Matégot travelled across Italy and the USA until settling in Paris in 1931 where he worked as a set designer, window dresser and tapestry maker. Matégot volunteered for the French resistance at the start of the Second World War, only to be captured by the Nazis. A dreadful fate for most, however, it was during his time as a prisoner of war that the artist discovered metalworking techniques (such as Rigitulle) which he later patented and became renowned for. Upon his release, Matégot was awarded French citizenship. After the war, the artist's interest in tapestry was renewed after being introduced to contemporary tapestry revivalist, Jean Lurçat. However, in order to make ends meet, Matégot pursued furniture design; he established a workshop in Paris and dedicated his time to translating the groundbreaking metal techniques into popular handcrafted objects. In 1959, Matégot abandoned furniture design and focused exclusively on his passion for abstract tapestries. He continued his work as a pioneer of French Modern tapestry...