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HOUSE MUSEUM OF TÍA SANDALIA

Villacañas (Toledo)GPS: 39.62699890136719, -3.3381800651550293
Sandalia, the art which emerges by itself
Casa-Museo de la Tía Sandalia
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Monographic about Tía Sandalia’s work, a self-taught painter and sculptor of the village, four decades of production in loneliness and retreat which can’t be catalogued in any artistic vanguard or movement.

WHAT WE’LL SEE

Religious images in these elements: gympsum, lime, glitter, tempera, vine shoots, wires and sticks. Verónicas and Magdalenas Virgins. Hitting, scratching and viding the prime material with spoons and knives. The Last Supper, Adam and Eve in Eden and the Kiss of Judas. An exhibition of 66 sculptures, 40 reliefs and 26 canvas.

ACCESS

Every day: 9:30-13:30 / 16:30-19:30. Free entry.

FUNFACTS

Sandalia Simón Fernández (1902-1987) turned her home into an art studio. An amazing storyteller. She had a privilege memory, but she never learnt how to read and write. She made her paintbrush with her own hair. He gave her art selflessly.

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