Side Gallery presents Global Tools, from 11th May to 14th of July 2023 curated by Luis Sendino at the gallery space in Barcelona. For this season´s Spring group show, the gallery showcases a curated selection featuring ten international designers from five different continents focusing on everyday life and aiming to rediscover a direct relationship between craft and design product.
The title of the exhibition is borrowed from eponymous experience of Radical Design and its multidisciplinary school program. The Global Tools movement began with its foundation in 1973 by groups and figures drawn from Italian Radical Architecture, Arte Povera, and Conceptual Art. Names as Ettore Sottsass Jr., Gaetano Pesce, Alessandro Mendini, Andrea Branzi, Ugo La Pietra, the members of the collectives Archizoom and Superstudio and conceptual artists and intelectuals as Franco Vaccari, Giuseppe Chiari, Luciano Fabro and Germano Celant among others. Global Tools consisted in a network of workshops in Florence to promote the use of natural technical materials and the associated skills, aiming to encourage individuals to develop their creativity freely.
| Hours | By Appointment |
| Venue | Side Gallery |
| Type | Design Exhibition |
| Duration | By Appointment |
| City | Barcelona |
About
Side Gallery
Side Gallery, established in Barcelona and founded in November 2015 works with international design of the twentieth century, as well as contemporary design. The gallery focuses on Latin American historical design from countries such as Brasil, Mexico, or Venezuela, primarily concentrating on the work of Oscar Niemeyer, Geraldo de Barros, Lina Bo Bardi, Luis Barragán, Antonio Bonet and Joaquim Tenreiro, but also with a special sensibility for Spanish and Italian design of the past century and rare pieces by relevant architects worldwide. For its contemporary design projects, the gallery invites international designers, architects and contemporary artists to re-think design and handcraft traditions through ethnographic methods proposing a dialogue between two centuries to develop limited-edition works, commissioned and produced exclusively. Committed to innovation and tradition, the gallery collects, preserves, and promotes modern and contemporary design, whilst exploring ideas across cultures through different initiatives and collaborations. In addition to presenting a dynamic schedule of gallery exhibitions, Side Gallery proposes site-specific interventions worldwide at singular architectural landmarks working with renowned curators and offering a rereading of the lines between architecture, art and design.
