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madalena santos reinbolt

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Madalena Santos Reinbolt

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Tapeçaria | S.D.

Dimensões: 85 x 103 cm

Galeria Estação

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3/3 Despite the richness of her art, her production was limited by a colonial and patriarchal system that restricted the way she existed in society. Madalena was never able to support herself as an artist, having worked as a maid until the end of her life. After her death, her work was exhibited at the Venice Biennale, and today it is part of private and public collections, such as that of MASP and that of the Afro Brasil Museum in São Paulo.    Illustration by @museu_inventado Text edited by @melisagrayward #herchive #archive #MadalenadosSantosReinbolt #Reinbolt #Brazilianart #textileart #visualstorytelling #femaleartist #femalepainter https://www.instagram.com/p/COQWSEFLIHd/?igshid=1el2ft4ijvxf

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2/3 At first, her bosses encouraged her, giving her paints, brushes, needles and wool. Bishop wrote that her cook had turned out to be “a wonderful primitive painter, so in a little while we’ll be selling her paintings on 57th Street and we’ll all be rich”. Bishop even said that Madalena's paintings were better than those of famous Brazilian painter Cândido Portinari. The artist used up to 154 needles in her compositions laden with ancestry and Black popular culture, resistant to colonisation processes. However, Madalena was soon dismissed when her art practice began to interfere with domestic work.   Portrait by @museu_inventado Text edited by @melisagrayward #herchive #archive #MadalenadosSantosReinbolt #Reinbolt #Brazilianart #textileart #visualstorytelling #femaleartist #femalepainter https://www.instagram.com/p/CN0Ux64Mooe/?igshid=1hjzrnyx13cr7

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1/3 Madalena dos Santos Reinbolt (1919-1977) was born on a farm in the countryside of Bahia, Brazil. She had no formal education, and never attended school or learned to read. In her early twenties, she left her family to work as a domestic worker in different urban centres.   While working as a cook at the homes of landscaper Lota de Macedo Soares and poet Elisabeth Bishop in Petrópolis, she started painting and producing tapestries representing her childhood experiences and memories. In her canvases embroidered with vibrant colours, the lines work like brush strokes, creating dynamic and elaborate wefts.  Illustration by @museu_inventado Text edited by @melisagrayward #herchive #archive #MadalenadosSantosReinbolt #Reinbolt #Brazilianart #textileart #visualstorytelling #femaleartist #femalepainter (at Bahia Brasil) https://www.instagram.com/p/CNX0CKus-kY/?igshid=1pb6oghzu3sls