Sheila Hicks, Threads that Travel

Beyond overcoming the historical model of the tapestry, Sheila Hicks, a great admirer of pre-Columbian weavings -she made a decisive trip to South America in the late 1950s- has produced an unclassifiable but inescapable oeuvre. It is an oeuvre that moves with ease between art, design and decoration, between the modernist legacy (she studied with Josef Albers at Yale) and non-Western traditions, between works of architectural dimensions and small weavings, the Minimes, made, from 1956 onwards, with gestures that mix experimentation and reverie.

This monographic exhibition, the first devoted to Sheila Hicks in Spain, does not follow a chronological path. Instead, it seeks to favor a sensitive experience of the work and a more direct immersion in the formal, material and chromatic universe of this artist. Textile is the material with which we live most in contact; cotton, silk, linen or wool clothes wrap our bodies every day. It is the same material with which Sheila Hicks sculpts, paints and colors the space.

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