Adorno presents the Spanish collection within the Virtual Design Destination, an interactive online exhibition at the Museo Nacional de Arte Romano curated by Ana Domínguez Siemens Register to attend the virtual tour

The theme for this year's first Virtual Design Destination by Adorno is “The New Reality”. Preparations were initiated during the surge of COVID-19 in Europe. The curators of the fourteen participating countries have been asked to reflect on specific experiences, thoughts, and themes from the time of lockdown in the curation and art direction of each of their country collections. They have been working with leading designers from their design scene to develop sub-narratives to the overarching theme.

SPAIN: BACK TO BASICS
Curated by Ana Domínguez Siemens

Our new reality is probably far from what we had imagined. We had been exploring every new material and technology as soon as they became available. We had our minds put in a future in which we would find answers to our doubts and problems if we focused on what new science had to offer. 

The lockdown experience sort of put us back in a place of reflection, we were somehow forced to slow down and think. Watch, observe. What started as an annoying moment turned out to be a perfect timing for taking a pause, looking around us, and seeing the myriad of possibilities and all the fulfillment that simple things could provide. Maybe it is time to go back to basics, if not forever, for a while. Time to use our creativity and apply it to our immediate world, use what is there for us to re-think, re-use, recycle, see with new eyes what has always been there in front of us.… We probably thought we had all the answers, but maybe we needed to change the questions.

Studio la Cube is questioning mankind's relation to nature, by domesticating the raw and unpolished through shaping Jesmonite into side tables looking like rocks. Julia Esque's mirror has five planes bent in stainless steel. In consequence, each face interprets a new reality, reflecting unpredicted views of the surrounding environment. Ines Sistiaga with her hand-tufted wall pieces is embracing the intuitive, by transforming her quick doodles into textile wall pieces through her time-consuming techniques. 

Register here to attend the guided tour of the Virtual Exhibition for the Spanish collection, hosted by curator Ana Domínguez Siemens.

September 20 / 15:00 PM GMT

MEET THE CURATOR

Ana Domínguez Siemens 

Ana Domínguez Siemens is a Madrid-based curator, writer, and freelance journalist. Following her degree in Art History from Madrid’s Universidad Complutense (1986), she enrolled in the “Decorative Arts of the 19th and 20th Centuries” program at Sotheby’s Art Institute in London.

As a curator, she has conceived and produced exhibitions including “Fuera de Serie” at the CentroCentro Cibeles in Madrid, 2013, and co-curated the 2015 exhibition “Out of place,” a project by art curator Rosa Pera, for the Disseny Hub Barcelona during Festival FadFest.

Domínguez Siemens writes regularly for international publications including ABC Cultural, La Vanguardia, Elle Decoration, Neo2, AD, Gentleman, Marie Claire Maison, Houzz, El País (El Viajero), Azure (Canada) and World of Interiors (UK). She has written text for books and catalogues about international figures in art and design, including Gaetano Pesce, Rolf Sachs, Gunjan Gupta, Álvaro Catalán de Ocón, Michael Anastassiades, Fredrikson/Stallard, Anton Alvarez and Artur Casas.

FEATURED DESIGNERS

Ines Sistiaga / Lucas Munoz / Álvaro Catalán de Ocón / Júlia Esqué / Martí Guixé / Studio La Cube / Tornasol Studio / Inma Bermudez / Studio todo_to_do / Belen Moneo / Mayice Studio

SUPPORTED BY

Museo Nacional de Arte Romano / Acción Cultural Española / Dekton by Cosentino

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