Exhibitions and installations
As always, there are numerous exhibitions proposed by the Madrid Design Festival, even if they lack a common thematic line.
The Fernán Gómez Cultural Center - a municipal space in the very central Plaza Colón - hosts, as always, most of them.
In addition to the exhibition dedicated to Sevillian design, the Madre natura collective will also be inaugurated on February 7, a collective designed to stimulate the sense of belonging to the planet by touching on themes such as circularity, sustainability and eco-design; Madrid, alpha of modernity, a retrospective look at ceramic production in the capital in the mid-twentieth century; and the installation Contorni dell'acqua, a project by the Turin architect Teresa Sapey for Formica Group.
Worth noting this year is the strong involvement in Madrid of the American Hardwood Export Council. In fact, the AHEC promotes the exhibition Slow, Design slow for a quick change (also at the Fernán Gómez Center) by presenting the works of 17 young creatives selected from nine Spanish schools, the whose prototypes in American wood were handcrafted by the Navarra carpentry in Madrid.
Three varieties of North American wood from AHEC are the material chosen by Inma Bermúdez with Moritz Krefter, Jorge Penedés and Álvaro Catalán de Ocón for the Natural Connections series, installations designed for the public refreshment within the spaces of Madatero Madrid, another important cultural center managed by the municipal administration.
Lastly, an AHEC project is Orixe: a series of functional and sustainable wooden furnishings (for outdoors, indoors and contract), designed by Studio Stone Design for Savia and presented both at Fernán Gómez and in the spaces of the Institución Libre de Enseñanza.