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The enclosed garden in the image above is situated in a dense oak forest near a farm in the community of Sant Gregor, a village with approximately 3,400 inhabitants in the province of Girona, in Catalonia, Spain.
This garden includes a collection of self-made miniature structures with a specific characteristic, such as the birth of Christ in the image below.
Life and works
The art environment located in the garden is a project undertaken by Remei Mulleras i Mascarel, who was born in 1948 in the nearby farm.
When she was 14 years old she took a course in sewing clothes, which she started making a year later, receiving an official title at age 17.
Her creations became very popular, especially the wedding dresses that she stitched by hand and which all had their own signature.
After working as a seamstress for over thirty years, in her fifties, towards the end of the 19th century, she began to tire of making clothes.
To prevent worse, a doctor advised her to do another line of work. which she did by starting to make bridal bouquets, which sold well.
Remei Mülleras was also interested in making a miniature representation of the birth of the Christ child, in Spanish called "pesebre" and this became a hobby.
In Spain such nativity scenes are very popular and municipalities sometimes organize competitions in the month of December to see who made the most beautiful nativity scene. She participated in such a competition and won the first prize.
This inspired her to continue making miniatures and in the year 2000 she started a project to create forty miniatures of churches, in this way presenting these buildings as present in almost all commnes in the region.
In the forest near the farm that was her parental home there were trees that produced cork, which she would use for her creations.
The forest area around the farm also lent itself very well to demarcate kind of a garden where these creations could be siiuated.
That was the beginning of the construction of an art environment, which initially had a size of
150 m² and would later grow to around 800 m²
When this project of the miniature schurches was finished, she then wanted to show specific miniatures from every region in Catalonia.
It became a new series of projects, in which attention would be given to traditional professions on the one hand and well-known people on the other..
The forge in the image above and the craftsman in the image below give an impression of the series dedicated to professions.
Among the other traditional craftsmen depicted were a baker, a photographer and a mattress maker.
To conclude the different categories of miniatures, here follows a series of images that can be characterized as miniatures of individuals standing alone.
Remei Mulleras had in mind to give well known Spanish people a place in the art environment and they are also present, but not being from Spain it was difficult to distinguish those well known people..
So, athe image around give an image of individual persons among buildings and places in the art environment, beauitiful sculptures as well.
Documentation
* Article ( 2018) by Jo Farb Hernández on the website SPACES Archives * Article (January 2023) in magazine Lavangardia, with an interview with Remei Mulleras * A book with a biography of Remei Mulleras, written by Joan Mañé Fort and entitled "Remei Muleras, l'Anima del Pessebre de Can Roseta" (The Soul of the Birth of Can Roseta) was presented on April 20, 2023 on a place in the art environment and in the presence of the mayor of Sant Gregori
Video
Video Provinci de Girona Trip (YouTube, 2020, 45"49'-52"31') by Serflac
Note
I would like to remark that biographical aspects in the above text are taken from the article by Jo Farb Hernández, the only review in which these aspects appear
Remei Mulleras
Can Roseta
Sant Gregori, dept Gironna, region Catalunya, Spain
visitors welcome
for groups there is an entrance fee
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