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Concierto de sátiros y ménades (h. 1648-1659) (Detalle). Manufactura Real del Louvre (taller de Pierre y Jean Lefevre), posiblemente. Colección FMCMP.
© de la reproducción: Fundación María Cristina Masaveu Peterson. Foto: Marcos Morilla

Fundación María Cristina Masaveu Peterson presents Masaveu Collections. Textile Art, an exhibition bringing together more than eighty textile works dating from the fifteenth century to the present day. The selection reflects more than a century of collecting and two centuries of the Masaveu family’s involvement with textiles.

The exhibition is co-curated by Antonio Sama García, curator at the Royal Tapestry Factory and Associate Professor in the Department of Art History at the Complutense University of Madrid, and Patricia Molins de la Fuente, art historian and curator. It is divided into two main parts: Historic Rugs, Embroideries and Tapestries, devoted to the historic holdings, and Textiles, Front and Back, focusing on contemporary textile art. Comprising six sections dedicated to historic art and nine to contemporary art, the exhibition brings different periods, techniques and forms of expression into dialogue. Represented artists include Magdalena Abakanowicz, Sheila Hicks, Maria Lai, Joan Miró, Aurèlia Muñoz, Teresa Lanceta, Sonia Navarro, Paula Rego, Josep Grau-Garriga, Le Corbusier, Sonia Delaunay, Olga de Amaral, Anni Albers, Antoni Tàpies, Georges Braque, Alexander Calder, Dolors Oromí and Belén Rodríguez, among others.

The works on display are drawn from an important body of historic textiles and contemporary textile art within the Masaveu collections that has until now remained relatively little known to the wider public. The family’s connection with the world of textiles dates back to 1840, when Pedro Masaveu Rovira settled in Oviedo and established a major business in the sector. According to surviving records, the family’s collecting activity began with Pedro Masaveu Masaveu’s acquisition of historic tapestries in the early 1930s and was continued by subsequent generations. The exhibition brings together works from the Masaveu Collection (owned by Corporación Masaveu), the Foundation’s art collection (FMCMP Collection) and the personal collection of its president, Fernando Masaveu. 

Rather than following a strictly chronological narrative, the works are arranged thematically to encourage dialogue and bring stylistic, conceptual, technical and formal contrasts to the fore. In some cases, the exhibition design also recreates the historic use of tapestries as wall hangings, as well as original display arrangements conceived by the artists themselves. As both a culmination of the exhibition and a bridge between its historic and contemporary strands, Josep Grau-Garriga’s Homenatge a Frederic Mompou (1978) encapsulates the Masaveu family’s passion for textile art while reflecting its longstanding patronage of art and music.

IMPORTANT INFORMATION:
Admission is free with a timed ticket. 

Advance tickets for individual visits to the exhibition can be booked online using the following link.  Booking is subject to availability and opens up to 15 days in advance. If a date is shown in white on the calendar, bookings for that date have not yet opened.

The ticket desk is open daily until 30 minutes before closing. A maximum of two tickets per person are available from the ticket desk on a first-come, first-served basis, subject to availability for each time slot.

Please note that the busiest times are Tuesday to Friday, 11 am–1 pm, and Saturday and Sunday, 10 am–2 pm. Queues may form at these times.

For assistance, please contact infomadrid@fmcmp.com