Date: Thursday, March 26. 12:00 p.m.
Place: Auditorium of the EASD Antonio Faílde.
The designer Pepe Barro analyzes various icons of Rosalía de Castro and comes to the conclusion that there are three visions of Rosalías embodied in three different, even opposing, images. Photography, illustration and painting are mixed with poems, songs and iconographic analysis, in an illustrated oral exhibition.
The first works published by Pepe Barro date from the period 1972-1975, linked to cultural activities developed in Santiago de Compostela. In 1977, No. 0 of A Nosa Terra, a weekly newspaper in the Galician language, was published, which, in an era of recovery of democratic freedoms, put into circulation a new informative project with a historical header of Galician culture. At the age of twenty-two, having just finished his studies at the EINA school in Barcelona, Pepe Barro carries out the graphic project and is responsible for the design week by week, during the first two years of the publication's existence. This project establishes the roots of this professional in Galicia and directs his work towards the world of Galician culture - publishing houses, theater groups, magazines...-. In 1981 he showed his work in the Sargadelos gallery in Santiago de Compostela.
With the development of the bodies of the autonomous government of Galicia, institutional mandates arise (1983 memorandum of SODIGA, Society for the Industrial Development of Galicia, and projects for the first activities of the Department of Culture). In 1984 the ephemeral design studio BC&D (Barro, Campos and Díaz) was created and in 1985 Grupo Revisión Deseño, initially with Pepe Barro, Xosé Díaz (until 1995) and Lia Santana, which was then joined by Xosé Salgado.
The specialized magazines Línea Gráfica, On, De Diseño, Visual, Experimenta and Artegráfica have published reports on Grupo Revisión.
Several designs from this study appear in the book Historia del Diseño Gráfico en España, Enric Satué (Alianza Editorial, Madrid, 1997)
The works of Barro, Salgado and Santana were shown in the exhibitions Design in Spain (Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid, 1987). Barcelona 92, graphic creativity a l'sport olympic, (Barcelona 1987). Design Spain (Design Museum, London, 1990). Galician: Tradition and Design (Berlin, 1991). Signs of the Century, 100 years of Graphic Design in Spain (Reina Sofía, Madrid, 2000). Passion, Spanish Design (Berlin, Vienna, Salamanca, 2002 / Chicago 2003). Without limits, visions of current design (Palacio de Sástago, Zaragoza, 2003). The Ministry of Industry selected one of their works for the Exhibition of Spanish design at the Industrial Fair of Delhi (India), 15-20 February 2001. All for human rights: in 2002 they collaborated with Amnesty International in the exhibition of 27 posters. The creation of what is necessary, approaches to design in Galicia, MARCO de Vigo 2004, Homenaje al Quijote, Toledo 2005, Galicia en Cartel, touristic posters of Galicia, University of Santiago 2005, O lado da sombra, Fundación Seoane 2005, Disacuerdos, MACBA, Barcelona 2005. Ready to read. Book design in Spain (New York, October 2005. 2006: Mexico, Sao Paulo, Buenos Aires...). Author Posters, Decorative Arts Museum, (Barcelona, 2008). I Ibero-American Design Biennial, (Matadero, Madrid, November 2008 – February 2009), Produce, consume, recycle. Packaging and packaging design (Círculo de Belas Artes, Madrid. April – June, 2009).
The University of Santiago organized an anthological exhibition of his projects (Nadal, 1997) under the title Shaping Ideas, publishing a catalog of 68 pages. Pepe Barro showed his first works in an exhibition at the Sargadelos Gallery in Santiago de Compostela in 1981.
Awards Individually or collectively they have received the Prize for Galician Criticism, Arts and Sciences of Representation in 1983, the Galicia Prize for Graphic Design in 1984, the General Prize for Publishing Cooperation in 2000, the 2002 Letra Prize (SIGN-IFEMA) and the AEPD Prize of design in 2004.
His judgment has been required in the juries of the design awards Galicia (Ourense, 1985), Signes (Barcelona, 1995), Alimentaria (Barcelona, 1997), Laus (Barcelona, 1996) in the restricted competition that decided the identity of the Forum 2004 Barcelona, or at the 2006 AEPD Awards.
Date: Thursday, March 26. 12:00 p.m.
Place: Auditorium of the EASD Antonio Faílde.
The designer Pepe Barro analyzes various icons of Rosalía de Castro and comes to the conclusion that there are three visions of Rosalías embodied in three different, even opposing, images. Photography, illustration and painting are mixed with poems, songs and iconographic analysis, in an illustrated oral exhibition.
The first works published by Pepe Barro date from the period 1972-1975, linked to cultural activities developed in Santiago de Compostela. In 1977, No. 0 of A Nosa Terra, a weekly newspaper in the Galician language, was published, which, in an era of recovery of democratic freedoms, put into circulation a new informative project with a historical header of Galician culture. At the age of twenty-two, having just finished his studies at the EINA school in Barcelona, Pepe Barro carries out the graphic project and is responsible for the design week by week, during the first two years of the publication's existence. This project establishes the roots of this professional in Galicia and directs his work towards the world of Galician culture - publishing houses, theater groups, magazines...-. In 1981 he showed his work in the Sargadelos gallery in Santiago de Compostela.
With the development of the bodies of the autonomous government of Galicia, institutional mandates arise (1983 memorandum of SODIGA, Society for the Industrial Development of Galicia, and projects for the first activities of the Department of Culture). In 1984 the ephemeral design studio BC&D (Barro, Campos and Díaz) was created and in 1985 Grupo Revisión Deseño, initially with Pepe Barro, Xosé Díaz (until 1995) and Lia Santana, which was then joined by Xosé Salgado.
The specialized magazines Línea Gráfica, On, De Diseño, Visual, Experimenta and Artegráfica have published reports on Grupo Revisión.
Several designs from this study appear in the book Historia del Diseño Gráfico en España, Enric Satué (Alianza Editorial, Madrid, 1997)
The works of Barro, Salgado and Santana were shown in the exhibitions Design in Spain (Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid, 1987). Barcelona 92, graphic creativity a l'sport olympic, (Barcelona 1987). Design Spain (Design Museum, London, 1990). Galician: Tradition and Design (Berlin, 1991). Signs of the Century, 100 years of Graphic Design in Spain (Reina Sofía, Madrid, 2000). Passion, Spanish Design (Berlin, Vienna, Salamanca, 2002 / Chicago 2003). Without limits, visions of current design (Palacio de Sástago, Zaragoza, 2003). The Ministry of Industry selected one of their works for the Exhibition of Spanish design at the Industrial Fair of Delhi (India), 15-20 February 2001. All for human rights: in 2002 they collaborated with Amnesty International in the exhibition of 27 posters. The creation of what is necessary, approaches to design in Galicia, MARCO de Vigo 2004, Homenaje al Quijote, Toledo 2005, Galicia en Cartel, touristic posters of Galicia, University of Santiago 2005, O lado da sombra, Fundación Seoane 2005, Disacuerdos, MACBA, Barcelona 2005. Ready to read. Book design in Spain (New York, October 2005. 2006: Mexico, Sao Paulo, Buenos Aires...). Author Posters, Decorative Arts Museum, (Barcelona, 2008). I Ibero-American Design Biennial, (Matadero, Madrid, November 2008 – February 2009), Produce, consume, recycle. Packaging and packaging design (Círculo de Belas Artes, Madrid. April – June, 2009).
The University of Santiago organized an anthological exhibition of his projects (Nadal, 1997) under the title Shaping Ideas, publishing a catalog of 68 pages. Pepe Barro showed his first works in an exhibition at the Sargadelos Gallery in Santiago de Compostela in 1981.
Awards Individually or collectively they have received the Prize for Galician Criticism, Arts and Sciences of Representation in 1983, the Galicia Prize for Graphic Design in 1984, the General Prize for Publishing Cooperation in 2000, the 2002 Letra Prize (SIGN-IFEMA) and the AEPD Prize of design in 2004.
His judgment has been required in the juries of the design awards Galicia (Ourense, 1985), Signes (Barcelona, 1995), Alimentaria (Barcelona, 1997), Laus (Barcelona, 1996) in the restricted competition that decided the identity of the Forum 2004 Barcelona, or at the 2006 AEPD Awards.
