Galicia: Processes and Forms
Exhibition October 24 — December 03, 2023
local Galeria Municipal, Matosinhos
curador David Barro
Guest country
Galicia. Processes and Forms is an exhibition and editorial project that traces the past, present and future of Galician design, showing some of its milestones through a series of key professionals and companies that have invested in design as an engine of innovation from the 1920s to the present day.
Galicia. Processes and Forms aims to answer the questions “Where do we come from? Who are we? Where are we going?”, major questions of philosophy that in Galician terms are remembered as the title and refrain of one of the best-known songs by the group Siniestro Total, published in 1984 on the album Menos mal que nos queda Portugal. The exhibition is structured in three parts. The first shows how Galicia has managed to build a distinctive character through design. The second presents experimental proposals that take centre stage in democratic openness and a series of works in which design is legitimised and assumes visual authority to impose itself as a professional discipline, renewing Galicia's image and designing innovative products. And the third and final section concludes with a speculative design exercise on Galicia's resources as a territory and its Atlantic condition, which leads us to understand the present as a place where pasts and futures meet.
Galicia. Processes and forms is a project of the Porto Design Biennale with the support of the Xunta de Galicia through the Axencia Galega de Innovación, the Fundación Artesanía de Galicia and the DIDAC Foundation.
Exhibition Opening
24.10.2023 - 6 pm
PROGRAMME
Product Design and Craft Techniques Workshop
Workshop tutors: Isaac Piñero and Idoia Cuesta
20.10.2023 - 10:00-13:00, 15:00-18:30
ESAD, Matosinhos
As part of the guest country programme, Galicia. Processes and Forms, and in collaboration with the Fundación Artesanía de Galicia, ESAD is hosting the Product Design and Craft Techniques Workshop.
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Galeria Municipal de Matosinhos
Avenida Afonso Henriques, 4454-510 Matosinhos
Monday to friday
09:00 — 12:30, 14:00 — 17:30
Saturday, Sunday and holidays
15:00 — 18:00
David Barro is the Director of Fundación DIDAC and commissioner of art and design exhibitions. He is currently an advisor to the Programa de Diseño para la Innovación y la Sonstennibilidad – Diferenza (Agencia Gallega de Innovación, Xunta de Galicia) and was the managing director of the Fundación Luis Seoane, and advisor to the Fundación Barrié - of which he was the main responsible for the collection. Since 2020, he has been working as artistic director of MadBlue Summit, acknowledged as an event of exceptional public interest by the Government of Spain. David Barro has developed a career fundamentally associated with the universe of art and design, cultural innovation and sustainability, with particular focus on the creative context in Portugal. In 2006, he founded DARDO - magazine, dedicated to contemporary art, architecture and design, which received the 2016 National Anuaria Design Award and was selected by the IGDEA (International Graphic Design Awards 2017) for the best design of a periodical publication. At the same time, he founded the publisher and design company of the same name, which was soon chosen as a success story in eco-innovation experiences in the graphic arts sector and has won several design awards. He is part of the Cooperativa Performa since 2020, responsible for co-directing the Plataforma. Festival de Artes Performativas, in Santiago de Compostela.