Rugs

The rugs designed by Humberto Jaimes Sánchez in the sixties, respond to a moment in the history of modern art where there is a questioning of the hierarchies and borders between art, design and crafts. On the one hand, institutions such as the Museum of Modern Art in New York (MoMA) consolidated a curatorial structure that addressed the study of artistic disciplines through almost disjointed departments each other. At the same time, other initiatives brought together artists, artisans and designers around a practice such as weaving, associated with pre modern rural communities, to revitalize its contents and uses as a way to contribute to clarifying the status and meaning of decorative arts in the modern era.The supposed superiority of the art in relation to the design, based on its independence with respect to the dictates of the industry, was submitted to a revision that allowed a creative cross between expressive fields that until then had been maintained rigorously differentiated.