El fil de la modernitat

Group exhibition bringing together the work of Aurèlia Muñoz with that of other artists linked to the La Manufactura Aymat, at the Centre Grau-Garriga d'Art Tèxtil Contemporani in Sant Cugat del Vallès.

La Manufactura Aymat was a landmark in the evolution of contemporary tapestry in Catalonia. Its founder, Tomàs Aymat, revived the art of tapestry in a renewed artistic context. Its beginnings were linked to the decorative arts, to noucentisme and to Art Deco, and from 1959, under the business management of Miquel Samaranch, it began to take on the currents emerging in Europe. In Sant Cugat the so-called Escola Catalana de Tapís arose, a distinctive way of understanding textile art that developed in parallel with the Nouvelle Tapisserie.

This exhibition places the work of Aurèlia Muñoz in dialogue with that of artists who frequented the manufactory: Esther Boix, Maria Teresa Codina, Maria Girona, Josep Grau-Garriga, Josep Guinovart, Joan Hernández Pijuan, Albert Ràfols-Casamada, Maria Assumpció Raventós, Josep Royo and Josep Maria Subirachs. The show is framed within the commemoration of the Aurèlia Muñoz Year.

For anyone wishing to learn the history of Catalan tapestry, the itinerary offers a joint reading of the workshop as a space of encounter between different artists and trajectories.