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Tones collection
Nanimarquina & Clàudia Valsells
Clàudia Valsells and Nanimarquina present a new collection of rugs, Tones, which is available in several different designs and sizes. There are four main designs, Tones 1 – 3 and Pieces. This is the first Nanimarquina collection manufactured in both Kilim and Tufting versions. The earthy colour palette of the collection is conveyed to great affect. Tones 1, 2 and 3 features a central colour framed with a series of irregular edges in complimentary shades. While Pieces has more of a graphic quality, with a series of abstract shapes arranged on the flat surface of the rug with blank space in between each.
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“The Tones 1, 2 and 3 rugs come from an exploration and subsequent reinterpretation of the traditional way of building a rug, which has always primarily been an external frame with a series of central elements. The outcome is a new, contemporary take using color and simple forms. Through its own language, the forms have been synthesized, distributed at the ends leaving a central space that draws our attention. In the Pieces model the exercise is the opposite. The artist has distributed the cuttings in the center, composing them melodically in a display of her creative process,” explains Nani Marquina.
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“The colors of the Tones collection are conceived from the instruments in an orchestra - the toasted colors of the strings, the grays and blues of the wind instruments, the ochers of the percussion, etc. Forms emerged from that chromatic universe and I just had to play at composing them in a way that could be reproduced on different scales and that was harmonious,” adds Clàudia Valsells.
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Clàudia Valsells is a multidisciplinary artist who specialises in colour and mural painting. She trained at the Brussels’ Institute Supérieur de Peinture Van der Kelen et Logelain during the 90s. Subsequently she found Arts&Claus, her own company where colour is the focus of her artistic expression and experimentation. She specialises in the emotional impact of colour and its infinite wealth of nuances through colour ranges and harmonies.
