13.10 IMAGINARY ARCHETYPES - PRIVATE BUILDING - MEXICO CITY

GROUP EXHIBITION

Art and design are intrinsically different. Design is not art because from its conception there is a utilitarian end. The ideas of art are always separated from a practical utility. However, both disciplines share certain creative principles: both start from an original idea, both develop this idea through a series of intellectual processes, and then translate it into a concrete object. It is precisely there, in the space where the boundaries of these disciplines begin to blur, that we find the work that presents Imaginary Archetypes.

The works brought together in this exhibition make clear the relationship between art and design. Their processes, sometimes conceptual, sometimes in the making, denote a concern to expose the craft that shapes them. Sometimes they take a technique, sometimes a way of working, and sometimes a way of thinking about a specific craft, which may be industrial or artisan. In all of them the process is the protagonist both in itself and in its conceptual formulation.

Art is not design.

A project for the Abierto Mexicano de Diseño.