Madeleine Colaço
Brazil • 1907
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Madeleine Colaço was French, born in Moroccos. To French-American
parents, and became Brazilian through naturalization. She was married to
Portuguese writer Ribeiro Colaço and moved with him to Brazil in 1940.
She studied tapestry in Morocco and in France, and discovered the
embroidery stitch which is known as the "Brazilian Stitch" and is
registered at the Centre International de la Tapisserie in Lausanne,
Switzerland.
She exhibited her tapestries for the first time in Rio de Janeiro in
1963, and from then on, carried out more than 46 solo exhibitions
worldwide: at the Chateau de Lucens in Lausanne, at Galerie Prinzhorn in
Vienna, at the Palais de Congrès in Brussels, at the Maison de
l'Amérique Latine in Monaco, at the Kansas State Museum in the USA, and
at the Musée d'Art Naïf Anatole Jakovsky in Nice, France. On nine
occasions between 1986 and 2007, Galeria Jacques Ardies in São Paulo
held viewings of her new tapestries.
In her words, she declared that: "For me, tapestry is the joy of living.
It's an art that teaches us other arts: (the art of) patience, for
example, or (the art of) research. It was through research that I had
the good fortune of creating the "Brazilian stitch" and being able to
offer it back to Brazil, which has given me so much."
Roberto Pontual wrote: "Her trajectory has always been sunny, luminously
pre-disposed to the warmth of what is festive. Her tapestries, dreamed
visions of the tropics, are unpretentious and exuberant at the same
time".
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Who is the artist?
Madeleine Colaço was French, born in Moroccos. To French-American
parents, and became Brazilian through naturalization. She was married to
Portuguese writer Ribeiro Colaço and moved with him to Brazil in 1940.
She studied tapestry in Morocco and in France, and discovered the
embroidery stitch which is known as the "Brazilian Stitch" and is
registered at the Centre International de la Tapisserie in Lausanne,
Switzerland.
She exhibited her tapestries for the first time in Rio de Janeiro in
1963, and from then on, carried out more than 46 solo exhibitions
worldwide: at the Chateau de Lucens in Lausanne, at Galerie Prinzhorn in
Vienna, at the Palais de Congrès in Brussels, at the Maison de
l'Amérique Latine in Monaco, at the Kansas State Museum in the USA, and
at the Musée d'Art Naïf Anatole Jakovsky in Nice, France. On nine
occasions between 1986 and 2007, Galeria Jacques Ardies in São Paulo
held viewings of her new tapestries.
In her words, she declared that: "For me, tapestry is the joy of living.
It's an art that teaches us other arts: (the art of) patience, for
example, or (the art of) research. It was through research that I had
the good fortune of creating the "Brazilian stitch" and being able to
offer it back to Brazil, which has given me so much."
Roberto Pontual wrote: "Her trajectory has always been sunny, luminously
pre-disposed to the warmth of what is festive. Her tapestries, dreamed
visions of the tropics, are unpretentious and exuberant at the same
time".
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When was Madeleine Colaço born?
The year of birth of the artist is: 1907