Conceptual Art meets Galician folk craft in these images.
And you can see all these works on display at the moment in two adjacent museums in the city this summer.
Second left and right images are: Untitled 1966 works in oil and by the father of Argentinian conceptual art, Victor Grippo.
These are in visual “dialogue” with textile works, in wool and linen, by a female Galician folk artist, from the first half of the 20th century seen in the remaining photographs.
Grippo´s work is currently on display in the Museum of Contemporary Art in Santiago de Compostela. To see the traditional work you need to go next door at Santiago´s folk museum – to the Museo do Pobo Galego – in the textile weaving display – to see if you can spot the traditional work. The Museo do Pobo Galego is currently showing another exhibition, “Dialogo Creador” featuring contemporary work by Spanish fashion designers, makers and artists which is inspired by traditional work, “Contemporary Dialogue” and there is a free plan of the show in English available from the reception.
Let´s have some more “dialogo creador” in the act of making the future!
If you´d like to have a go at weaving felpa gallega textiles as seen in this image then contact us – we´re just 2 hours away from Santiago by car and organise weave workshops from our studio.
Photos and comments: 18 July 2013 by Anna Champeney
P.S. Support the Museo do Pobo´s work if you can during your visit. It´s one of the best in Galicia, has dedicated staff working with budgets that have been slashed (as has culture everywhere) to the bone with the recession.
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