2022
Extraperlo 22
Year
Client
Museo Nacional de Artes Decorativas
Type
Exhibition
Location
Madrid
Photography
Asier Rua
Graphics
Érika Muller
Campaign
Geray Mena
For the 4th edition of Extraperlo I invited Tomás Alonso to co-curate the show together at the Museo Nacional de Artes Decorativas (MNAD) in Madrid.
Participants: Luisa Kahlfeldt, Joschua Brunn, Julia Mariscal, Gemma Holt, Charlotte Talbot & Jonathan Mauloubier, Francesco Meda, Nitsan Debbi.
The objective of this new edition is to show the hidden faces of the design industry. The idea is not only to reveal what lies behind the practice of the leading offices around the globe but also to give voice to those who, very often, are not in the spot light.
Extraperlo 2022 will take place at the Museo Nacional de Artes Decorativas in Madrid. Inaugurated in 1912, the museum sits within a palace from the last third of the 19th century and portraits the evolution of the so-called “applied arts”. The collection includes furniture, ceramics, glass, metal and textile works, mainly between the 15th and the 20th century.
The participants have been asked to generate a project with the permanent collection of the museum as a starting point. We believe this context is an interesting opportunity to analyze what has been the role of this type of museum in the past, but above all, offer an insight of what could they become in the future.
Text by Tomás Alonso & Jorge Penadés