Date: Tuesday, April 9. 12:00 p.m.
Place: EASD Auditorium.
In recent times, design and craftsmanship have definitively conquered the ground of contemporary art. On the one hand, when generating beautiful forms or attending to your presentations, in the case of design. On the other hand, in the case of craftsmanship, attending to its processes, forms and materials.
However, there are not a few who radically insist on separating them, even when they are disciplines that, on numerous occasions, live in a common place. That is why, in the face of so much media explosion, it is worth resituating our way of looking. Those who have done it more and better are the creators, some artists, but also designers who stand out for their ability to raise their heads and look, embracing the shape of things and recovering their touch, summoning their difference. Also for their ability to work from artisanal processes and with an attitude that allows them to reinvent the everyday to in many cases introduce humor and normalcy.
That, surely, is the most effective ability to face the complexities of the 21st century. If something differentiates the creators is the way of looking and many of them are interested in the crossing of disciplines and that is why they have remained close to the world of handicrafts, for its ability to be a place for experimentation. Concerned with art, many designers are more interested in serendipitous and chance discovery than in the most finished product. What is at stake is creative freedom and, in the words of Gaetano Pesce, the right to be inconsistent. And there, once again, the gazes between design, contemporary art and craftsmanship intersect, as also happens in architecture, with architects who claim the artisan craft above the mere intellectualization of the creative project. It is about adding from the difference.
Davis BarroDavid Barro (Ferrol, 1974) is director of the DIDAC Foundation and curator of exhibitions. Co-director of the company Dardo and editor of DARDO magazine. He was managing director of the Luís Seoane Foundation (2014-2016), from where he coordinated the CIDEA project - Design Production Center of A Coruña. Advisor to the Barrié Foundation and responsible for acquisitions and collection (2008-2013), he also worked as a critic for El Cultural (1998-2014) and Lápiz magazine (2000-2004). He was director of the Portuguese magazine [W]art (2003-2005), of Arte y Parte magazine (1998-1999), of the Interesarte magazine of Editorial Galaxia and of the contemporary art fair of Vigo Espacio Atlántico (2010). In 2015 he was director and presenter of the television program Botella al Mar (V Television). As a teacher, he was a professor at UCP do Porto (2001-2006) and is currently a professor of the Master's in Advanced Studies at the University of Salamanca and the Master's in Cultural Management at the Carlos III University of Madrid. He is currently a member of the board of directors of ADACE, Association of Contemporary Art Directors in Spain. As curator of exhibitions, he has held more than 50 individual shows (Axel Hütte, Jessica Stockholder, Alex Katz, Günther Förg, Sandra Cinto, Julião Sarmento, Julian Opie, Sandra Cinto, José Pedro Croft, Luís Seoane, Berta Cáccamo...) and more than 50 groups linked to contemporary art, architecture and design, including Drift. Cross-views between Design and Contemporary Art (MAC, A Coruña) or Forms of design. Galicia XXI (Galicia Auditorium). In 2010 he was artistic director of the project Look Up! Natural Porto Art Show, which occupied 9 emblematic buildings of the city of Porto, and in 2011 the International Festival of Sustainable Artistic Action SOS 4.8 in Murcia.
Date: Tuesday, April 9. 12:00 p.m.
Place: EASD Auditorium.
In recent times, design and craftsmanship have definitively conquered the ground of contemporary art. On the one hand, when generating beautiful forms or attending to your presentations, in the case of design. On the other hand, in the case of craftsmanship, attending to its processes, forms and materials.
However, there are not a few who radically insist on separating them, even when they are disciplines that, on numerous occasions, live in a common place. That is why, in the face of so much media explosion, it is worth resituating our way of looking. Those who have done it more and better are the creators, some artists, but also designers who stand out for their ability to raise their heads and look, embracing the shape of things and recovering their touch, summoning their difference. Also for their ability to work from artisanal processes and with an attitude that allows them to reinvent the everyday to in many cases introduce humor and normalcy.
That, surely, is the most effective ability to face the complexities of the 21st century. If something differentiates the creators is the way of looking and many of them are interested in the crossing of disciplines and that is why they have remained close to the world of handicrafts, for its ability to be a place for experimentation. Concerned with art, many designers are more interested in serendipitous and chance discovery than in the most finished product. What is at stake is creative freedom and, in the words of Gaetano Pesce, the right to be inconsistent. And there, once again, the gazes between design, contemporary art and craftsmanship intersect, as also happens in architecture, with architects who claim the artisan craft above the mere intellectualization of the creative project. It is about adding from the difference.
Davis BarroDavid Barro (Ferrol, 1974) is director of the DIDAC Foundation and curator of exhibitions. Co-director of the company Dardo and editor of DARDO magazine. He was managing director of the Luís Seoane Foundation (2014-2016), from where he coordinated the CIDEA project - Design Production Center of A Coruña. Advisor to the Barrié Foundation and responsible for acquisitions and collection (2008-2013), he also worked as a critic for El Cultural (1998-2014) and Lápiz magazine (2000-2004). He was director of the Portuguese magazine [W]art (2003-2005), of Arte y Parte magazine (1998-1999), of the Interesarte magazine of Editorial Galaxia and of the contemporary art fair of Vigo Espacio Atlántico (2010). In 2015 he was director and presenter of the television program Botella al Mar (V Television). As a teacher, he was a professor at UCP do Porto (2001-2006) and is currently a professor of the Master's in Advanced Studies at the University of Salamanca and the Master's in Cultural Management at the Carlos III University of Madrid. He is currently a member of the board of directors of ADACE, Association of Contemporary Art Directors in Spain. As curator of exhibitions, he has held more than 50 individual shows (Axel Hütte, Jessica Stockholder, Alex Katz, Günther Förg, Sandra Cinto, Julião Sarmento, Julian Opie, Sandra Cinto, José Pedro Croft, Luís Seoane, Berta Cáccamo...) and more than 50 groups linked to contemporary art, architecture and design, including Drift. Cross-views between Design and Contemporary Art (MAC, A Coruña) or Forms of design. Galicia XXI (Galicia Auditorium). In 2010 he was artistic director of the project Look Up! Natural Porto Art Show, which occupied 9 emblematic buildings of the city of Porto, and in 2011 the International Festival of Sustainable Artistic Action SOS 4.8 in Murcia.
