“Here we are”, the sample that has just opened bow, in the mouth, brings together famous pieces of objects designed between the beginning of the last century and the present.
Proa began the artistic season with a unique design sample “Here we are: women in design 1900- Today!”.
The pieces, mostly from Vitra Design Museumnear Basel and designed by Frank Gehry It is a tour of 120 years of creativity, innovation and female talent of leading designers of different nationalities with furniture pieces, luminaires, textiles, utilitarian objects, graph of the time.
There is also an Argentine designer sector that marked and set a trend, for example, Celina A. de Pirovano, Lucrecia Moyano, Susy Aczel, Diana Cabeza, Josefina Robirosa in charge of the curator Silvia Fernández. It should be remembered that Horacio Coppola and Grete Stern They settled in Buenos Aires in 1935, becoming protagonists of the influence of the theory and aesthetics of Bauhaus, founded in Weimar by Walter Gropius in 1919.
In the late 50s, design careers at the National University of Cuyo and also that of the University of La Plata were created in Argentina. In the 70s there was a great female participation in the race as well when it was founded in 1958, the Di Tella Institute with a high degree of innovation in Argentine design.
This exhibition documented the struggle of women at the beginning of the 20th century for their place in society, from sewing workshops to their incorporation into the industry. They acted as curators Viviana Stappmans, Nina Steinmüller and Susanne Granerthe latter, chief of collection and archive of the vitra museum.
Among the works we highlight the tapestries of Anni Alberswho was a wife of Joseph Albersboth moved in 1933 to the United States before the emergence of Nazism, the Irish designer closet Eileen Graythe French Library Charlotte Perriand who worked with Le Corbusierthe famous Italian chair Cesi BoeriItalian design and architecture pioneer, the Brazilian italo stool Lina Bo Bardicreator of the MASP (Museum of Art of San Pablo). International sample that brings together more than 500 pieces, of 80 designers, recognized figures of modernism and contemporary creators that deserve more than one visit.
PROA Fundación, Av. Pedro de Mendoza 1929. Wednesday to Sunday from 12 to 19.
Source: Ambito
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