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- 23 x 30.5 cm
- 192 pages
- 200 black and white and color illustrations
- ISBN: 978-2-9155-4210-3
- Text in French only
Born in Meudon in 1910 to a father who was a doctor of Catalan origin and an Armenian mother who came to Paris to study painting, Guidette Carbonell took classes with André Lhote, Othon Friesz and Roger Bissière. From her beginnings in 1935, she turned towards ceramics, which she abandoned at the end of the 1960s for tapestries composed of fragments of glued and sewn fabrics. Moving from the abstract to the figurative, incorporating unusual elements into earth or cement, glass or metal, according to her imagination, she expresses, sometimes with a very current quality of unfinished business, a disturbing interior world, in which we rediscover the imagination of childhood. Nourished by oriental culture, and captivated by Romanesque or primitive representations, Guidette Carbonell deploys a fabulous bestiary of striking strangeness, where humans gradually merge with animals. Her work, which, from the 1930s to the 1990s, explored the realms of mythology, music, poetry and science with a constant sense of amazement at the natural world, appears very contemporary today.