Bodegas Martín Códax presents a special editionFragments of yesterday«, a collection of six unique and different bottles with the photographic legacy of Ruth Matilda Anderson that delves into the life of the Galician people.
The Martin Códax winery presents a special edition of bottles «Fragments of yesterday«, with the photographic legacy of Ruth Matilda Anderson
The Special Edition of these six bottles will be completed with the Exhibition Fragments of yesterday in Vigo (Afundación Headquarters) from April 20 to June 10, and Santiago (University Church), from June 21 to July 29, where there will be show cooking by renowned chefs, guided tours and commented tastings.
Bodegas Martín Códax presents a Special Edition of six bottles with the collection Fragments of Yesterday of his Martín Códax Albariño, available for a limited time. Six unique and different bottles with a selection of photographs by the American Ruth Matilda Anderson who delves into the life of the Galician people thanks to the visual stories that she created between 1924 and 1926. Fragments of a woman’s life, of daily beauty and good work. . A great little tribute to tradition and Galician origins.
The usual label for Albariño Martín Códax is in itself a tribute to Galician culture, and to one of the characters who most contributed to the consolidation of our language. And now, for a limited time, he will pay homage to the craft trades that take place in Galicia, and that many of them still exist. The redeiras of Marín, the cheese shops of Muros, the shellfish shops of Carril or the palillairas of Muxía, along with the potters of Niño da Guia in Ourense or the vendors of Praza da Leña in Pontevedra are represented in each of the six bottles of this Special Edition Fragments of Yesterday.
Bottle Collection:
1/6 – Palilleiras working in a house in Muxía, A Coruña. 1,924. Along the Costa da Morte, the women used to meet in the evenings. They did it to socialize and turn work into leisure. The young people then went to the houses to sing and dance. Together with the one in Milan and the one in Bruges, it is one of the jewels of European lace.
2/6 – Network repair. Marín, Pontevedra. 1,924. Galicia, a land that always looks at the sea. Work at sea required certain tasks on land that were performed by women. A good example is the netters who fixed the nets with their needles for long days.
3/6 – Removing the shore in search of shellfish. Cortegada, Lane, Pontevedra. 1,926. The artisan beginnings of the Galician canning industry, of such importance for the region, and which still persist. An arduous task that still maintains its manual nature today.
4/6 – Milkmaids back to Carnota. Walls, A Coruña. 1,924. They would walk great distances every morning with their zinc jugs on their heads to sell the milk, both from their cows and from their neighbors. Some women even carried more than 60 kg on their heads.
5/6 – Taking pots to the monthly fair. Ourense 1.925. Women carried loads on their heads to walk the paths and carry weights they could not otherwise carry. Along with those of Buño, they are the most representative of Galician crafts, still alive.
6/6 – Wood and paja market. Praza da Lena, Pontevedra. 1924. These women walked fifteen or twenty kilometers loaded with bundles of firewood in the hope of obtaining two pesetas for their sale, in one of the most emblematic markets of Pontevedra.
Fragments of yesterday, the Exhibition
Coinciding with the launch of the Special Edition, Bodegas Martín Códax will present in Vigo and, later on, Santiago, in collaboration with the Sete Espadelas Ethnographic Association, the Exhibition Fragments of yesterday in which you can see a significant sample of the photographic legacy of Ruth Matilda Anderson.
Between 1924 and 1926, Archer Milton, founder of the Hispanic Society of America in New York, sent the photographer Ruth Matilda Anderson to Galicia, on several expeditions, to collect all the ethnographic material that was about to be lost: clothing, trades, parties. , customs, fairs, traditions…
The exhibition presents a selection of more than 60 costumes, the result of five years of study, search, analysis and recovery on Anderson’s trip and book. It is a rigorous research work with the aim of reproducing, before the eyes of the visitor, what Ruth Matilda saw when she arrived in Galicia in the most exact way possible. The spectator will be able to see close to a thousand articles of clothing (a large percentage of them old or reproduced from old patterns and fabrics), as well as farm implements, household items and different original elements of the time.
Looking through Anderson’s lens and reading what is in his writings allows us to see through his eyes.
Through them we will meet the milkmaids of the Santiago region gathered in Rúa Nova at dawn, the redeiras of Marín, the zoqueiros at the fairs of Pontevedra or Santiago, the vendors of the Praza da Leña de Pontevedra or the chestnut trees of Compostela .
A journey back in time, one hundred years ago, where we can recover the old trades that have been forgotten, fairs, pilgrimages, work at sea and in the fields… In short, all of our popular culture, through the photographs of the American.
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