Art

AmonaTela is a personal practice or artistic project developed within the framework of the Doctoral Thesis project More Fabric, More Layers. It explores concepts such as DIY, digital fabrication and open-source approaches, reuse and sustainability, as well as craftsmanship and the transmission of artisan knowledge through fashion.

This exhibition by the Basurama Architects collective invites visitors to approach, interact with, and manipulate different objects, games, instruments, and other utensils, turning the exhibition spaces into centers of participation and engagement for audiences of all ages with waste and reuse. The exhibition is therefore playful and interactive, but also educational. In fact, visitors have DIY explanatory sheets in the form of instruction manuals to develop some of the pieces on display at home.

This exhibition was the main exhibition of the Second Edition of MUGAK; the Basque Country International Architecture Biennial. The exhibition highlights the artistic and heritage contributions of the Ulm School of Architecture—founded in 1953 in that German city—a center that researched and developed urban planning, industrial architecture, product design, graphic design, and communication during the 1950s and 60s. It was a continuation and development of the Bauhaus Weimar-Dessau-Berlin, whose centenary is being celebrated this year. In fact, Ulm's first rector was Max Bill, a Swiss artist, architect, and designer who was also a Bauhaus.

From 2008 to 2011, the city of Donostia/San Sebastian presented its candidacy to become the European Capital of Culture. Throughout different phases, a team of people who envisioned a city free from violence and a cultural project based on coexistence between different groups (cultures, origins, activities, ways of life) as a driving force for change developed a project grounded in the energy of the waves of citizen participation.

The exhibition is a journey through almost 80 years of the factory’s history, a place that forms part of the collective imagination of Basque industrial memory. The factory, located in Irún, was looted after its closure due to bankruptcy, and many of the pieces designed and manufactured there are part of the GORDAILUA collection (Center for Heritage Collections of movable goods of Gipuzkoa).