Filant la natura: els tapissos de Maria Assumpció Raventós

This November the Fundació Felícia Fuster opens an exhibition dedicated to the textile production of Maria Assumpció Raventós (Sant Sadurní d'Anoia, 1930), a key figure in the renewal of contemporary Catalan tapestry. Initially trained at the Escola Superior de Belles Arts de Sant Jordi, she consolidated her practice at the Escola Catalana del Tapís with Josep Grau-Garriga and, decisively, with the Argentine artist Susana Rolando, from whom came the adoption of knotting techniques that transform the fabric into three-dimensional relief. After stays in Paris, Washington and Japan, Raventós, associated with the currents of Catalan informalism, awarded the Creu de Sant Jordi and an academic of the RACBA de Sant Jordi, built a singular universe that links craft and formal research, always defending the role of women creators. The exhibition brings together nine pieces of great textural richness made with her own dyes on virgin fibre, where the work leaves the wall to engage with the memory of her native Penedès, sea voyages and an early ecological awareness influenced by the art of Indigenous American cultures. Consult more information about the exhibition "Filant la natura: els tapissos de Maria Assumpció Raventós" on the website of the Fundació Felícia Fuster.