Delve into 'Hacer Diseñar Pensar', an exhibition in Madrid that intricately blurs the lines between design, art, and craftsmanship. Discover a diverse selection of contemporary works that draw inspiration from ancestral techniques like basketry and pottery. The showcase explores dialogues between tradition and innovation, championing honest design with a distinct identity. It highlights the importance of process and small-scale production in shaping modern creative thought.
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This exhibition explores the relationship between design, art, and craft through the work of various creators. It highlights how contemporary designers draw inspiration from ancestral techniques and materials, seeking a distinct voice in a globalized context. The exhibition showcases pieces that reflect on process, small-scale production, and the connection between manual skills and intellectual thought.
The exhibition 'Hacer Diseñar Pensar: Piezas, experimentos y caminos del diseño' delves into the multifaceted world of contemporary creation, where the boundaries between design, art, and craftsmanship blur. It presents a diverse selection of creators whose work reflects on their engagement with object design, often finding themselves at an equidistant point between these disciplines. Their creations are rooted in ancestral techniques such as basketry and pottery, seeking a solid and clear language that is both unique and differentiating. In a globalized territory like fashion and design, many creators have turned their gaze towards the formal purity of these processes, materials, and objects. The exhibition examines the dialogues between tradition and contemporaneity, local production and the global market, limited series versus mass production. It champions honest design with identity, socially embedded, looking towards the past to secure its future. Through the work of designers like Sara Coleman, José Castro, David del Río, Manuel Bolaño, D-Due, Xabier Lorenzo, Silvia García, Fernando Suárez, Saray Fernández, Isabel Mastache, Eva Soto, Mercedes García, Esther Lebrato, Silvia Moure, Jessica García, and artisans like Silvereira and EFerro, the exhibition traverses the flow between making, designing, and thinking, embodying Sennett's notion of 'connecting the hand with the head'. This constant feedback loop from idea to execution is a fundamental line of force for understanding contemporary design, which emphasizes the importance of process and small-scale productions.
Admission to the exhibition is free for all audiences. The museum is located at Montalbán 12, 28014 Madrid.
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