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A Brazilian Artist’s Intergalactic Wool Work
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A Brazilian Artist’s Intergalactic Wool Work

Last updated: March 26, 2025 11:54 pm
Editorial Board Published March 26, 2025
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Madalena Santos Reinbolt’s woven embroideries are made of economic, acrylic yarn, an unforgiving medium usually related to grade college weaving kits and resale retailer afghans. However the artist’s quadros de lã (“wool paintings”) miraculously, virtually magically, transcend classes of excessive and low, craft and portray. Not solely is her artwork highly effective and singular, nevertheless it holds the cultural residue of a lady adhering to and celebrating her personal id and homeland, regardless of her marginalized standing as a Black lady from rural Brazil.

A Head Filled with Planets, organized by the Museum of Artwork of São Paulo, Brazil, and presently on view on the American People Artwork Museum, is Santos Reinbolt’s first solo exhibition exterior of her dwelling nation. Born in Bahia, Brazil, in 1919, her father farmed whereas her mom cared for his or her 16 kids by stitching garments, making lace, cooking, spinning wool, and firing ceramic bowls and plates in a yard kiln. It was a hands-on, tactile world. Madalena left dwelling at 20 to safe employment as a home servant, finally residing within the mountain dwelling of architect Lota de Macedo Soares and her accomplice, the US poet Elizabeth Bishop. Right here, within the Nineteen Fifties, she painted in her spare time. The oil work are compositionally much like the later embroideries, each on view within the exhibition. When her employers fired her for devoting an excessive amount of time to her artwork, she moved in with a brand new household and in 1969, a decade earlier than her dying, she started to make her wool work. 

Madalena Santos Reinbolt, “Nazare” (1950–62), oil on canvas

Impressed with Santos Reinbolt’s embroidery on home textiles similar to towels, the household inspired her to proceed. Utilizing yarn like a paint palette, she would thread 154 needles with completely different colours and apply them as one would possibly dip a brush, switching colours impulsively and with ease. Whereas residing her total grownup life within the houses of extra prosperous White individuals, her dense, free-form landscapes, usually embedded with childhood reminiscences, appeared to assist her maintain on to a way of place, id, and individuality.

The exhibition’s 40-some textiles and smattering of early oil work inform a narrative of an artist who was in a position to admire and translate the fantastic thing about life. In lots of works, the solar pulses over scenes that glint with butterflies, birds, and different animals, ponds, and teams of Black townspeople carrying fish, promenading, going someplace and nowhere unexpectedly. Like Vincent van Gogh, her multi-angled mark making generates swooning rhythms and patterns. The embroidered threads obey no guidelines, twisting and swirling into rivulets. This gestural stitching, usually executed on coarse burlap, brings a way of movement to a breeze or warmth to the solar.

Madalena9Set up view of Madalena Santos Reinbolt: A Head Filled with Planets on the American People Artwork Museum, New York

Class inequality, handbook labor, and hints of a lingering Candomblé faith amongst Brazil’s Black inhabitants make light appearances within the work. An avowed Catholic, when she depicts the Final Supper in an untitled and undated work, the tablecloth’s textures and drape and the angels hovering above seem extra animated than the apostles. Two summary wool work significantly showcase the breadth of Santos Reinbolt’s innovation, introducing tufted textures, fields of pure coloration, and vividly natural geometric shapes. These bigger items made me suppose, if solely she had had extra time, house, sources, and help to proceed to develop her follow. 

Madalena Santos Reinbolt by no means discovered to learn or write and by no means acquired public recognition for her artwork in her lifetime. However her service as a home employee didn’t overshadow her self-definition as an artist. Like many different ladies artists, her rise from obscurity to recognition is a triumph in addition to a big insertion within the story of artwork historical past that’s certainly woven, in addition to painted and sculpted. 

Madalena5Madalena Santos Reinbolt, “Untitled” (1965–76), acrylic wool on burlapMadalena3Set up view of Madalena Santos Reinbolt: A Head Filled with Planets on the American People Artwork Museum, New YorkMadalena8Madalena Santos Beinbolt, “Untitled” (1965–6), acrylic wool on burlap with items of clothMadalena6Madalena Santos Reinbolt, “Untitled” (1965–76), acrylic wool on burlapMadalena4Madalena Santos Reinbolt, “Untitled” (1962–67), acrylic wool on burlap

Madalena Santos Reinbolt: A Head Filled with Planets continues on the American People Artwork Museum (2 Lincoln Sq., Higher West Facet, Manhattan) by means of Could 25. The exhibition was curated by Amanda Carneiro and André Mesquita. The American People Artwork Museum presentation was curated by Valérie Rousseau, with curatorial help from Dylan Blau Edelstein.

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