This year we wanted the MNAC Christmas card to be chosen by an artist. We asked Mari Chordà (Amposta, 1942) to select a work from our collection in order to wish you a Happy New Year.

Mari Chordà is a multi-faceted creator, plastic artist, poet and promoter of collective feminist and socio-cultural projects. From 1965 to 1966 Mari lived in Paris where she began to create her own original paintings that addressed the topics of sexuality and the body using a language that lies between pop and abstraction. In 1968 she founded Lo Llar culture centre in Amposta and in 1977 she co-founded the pioneering women’s space La Sal Feminist Library Bar in Barcelona, later going on to establish the publishing house bearing the same name.

In the late 1960s Mari Chordà engaged in a highly original style of painting based on abstraction, and on the bright colours and the entertaining spirit of pop art, although addressing certain issues and taking on an iconography, which were way ahead of her time, linked to sexuality and nature.

In recent years Chordà’s work has witnessed a national and international revival at a host of exhibitions. As part of its collections, the MNAC retains her fundamental work Pregnant Self-Portrait, 1966-1967), in addition to Secretions, 1968), both of which are representative of her pop period. Their iconography, with reference to sexuality and the female body, is hugely personal and the style reflects the flat colours and ornamental effects of psychedelic pop.

See the work chosen by Mari Chordà in this video. What about you? What work from the Museum would you choose to say Happy New Year? Share it on social media using the hashtag #NadalaMNAC