Muestra 05
Clavajem de tela - Línea textil by Martin Churba ● Polímero [Block Polymer] by Bloque by Tregua

17/05/2013 - 12/07/2013

Comfort and space to explore

Texto curatorial por Martin Huberman

Curator / Moderator
Like a design process, the Monoambiente curator found a working logic, as the four episodes carried out during 2012 passed.
It is in this period that the idea of ​​curatorship mutated from the solitary action of the “curator” to working together with each of the parties involved in each exhibition.
This is how a functional tool was born, inherited from the design workshop itself, as if it were a work table where creations are born, live and develop from collaboration, discussion and, above all, dialogue.
It is in the commitment to this exchange of ideas that, in my opinion, lies the creative potential that Monoambiente seeks to exhibit.
I think then that in this second year of exhibitions, it is interesting to put aside the self-imposed curator’s metier, and adopt the work of the moderator, ordering the development of the year under a guiding idea to work on each exhibition:

Space & the Object.
The exhibitions are therefore conceived as a staging of a dialogue between two classic actors in the evolution of the disciplines of design, on the one hand the Space as a frame or stage and on the other the Object as an inhabitant.

It is on this binomial that the exhibitions of the year will work, a spatial development, an objectual construction and the inevitable relationship between the two in a studio apartment on the street in the neighbourhood of Chacarita.
Under this guiding principle, the duos that will design each of this year’s exhibitions were selected, proposing to potentially move them away from common places or armed systems that each one has constructed in the course of their work, to force them to grow towards new horizons.

The cycle intervenes in the comfort zone of different design professionals by inviting them to do what they don’t usually do. On the one hand, the rehearsal seeks to ponder the gallery as a laboratory of formal explorations where the invited offices can expand their stylistic language while building new links with other areas that can nourish their work in the future.

Clavajem de tela
Textil by Martín Churba

A few years ago, I went to Tokyo with Martin Churba to present one of his collections to his representatives there. After a seemingly endless journey (some thirty-six hours), we finally reached the hotel, where all I could do was succumb to jetlag and slumber.

The next morning, I woke up in a small room which, though elegantly furnished, was somewhat austere and anonymous. It did have a multifunction toilet, though, which reminded me I was on the other side of the planet. Ready to head out and discover Tokyo, I went by Churba’s room to pick him up. Though we had worked together for years and collaborated on many projects, it was not until I walked into a “Churba room” that I witnessed in the flesh for the first time the transformative power of his work.
Strips of colored tape, patterned garments, necklaces hanging from the light fixtures, pieces of fabric, paper, prints, and dresses—a great many dresses—had seized the room, moving his creative office in Recoleta to this sliver of Japan.
At first glance, it looked as if his suitcase had exploded and everything in it had splattered around the room, taking it over. That reflexive action was unquestionably the origin of this show.

Martin Churba’s way of pursuing his creativity is unique. It is characterized by the speed of reflexes and by his confidence in his own methods, a sense of assuredness that, in the end, he will find what he is looking for. Clavajem de tela is an outgrowth of that appropriation of space. With the power of an explosion, its origin lies in a library full of inspiration that, as it bursts, scatters around shards of textiles, intervened remains that this simple process has rendered the inner skin of the gallery.

“Martín & Martín,” say the ceiling fans that scatter everything that ventures into the middle of the room. From axis to world. That is the image that has been flying around my head from the very first day I began working with Martín H, whether in Monoambiente, on the catwalk, or at a Tramando boutique. We morphed from a ceiling fan into a twin-engine helicopter (they say we look alike…) and we fly away together.

“Thank you Martín!!”

 

Polímero en bloque (Block Polymer) by Tregua

The brand embraces the challenge of engaging in experimentation and innovation on the basis of non-conventional materials. This is the design strategy and inspiration for each one of the collections. In this contemporary approach, the limits between art and fashion blur.

Self-supporting gel was the experimental material used for Monoambiente’s Exhibition #05 by Tregua. A product based on oil-soluble compounds, the gel can change from solid to liquid when exposed to heat.

The project heeded the specific qualities of this material and was more geared to the process itself than to the outcome, envisioned as the trace of frozen movement.

 

Exhibition 05 opening event

Trailer - Re open Monoambiente 2013

Press

Flyers by Ariel di Lisio

Side B

Montajes [Production and installation of the exhibition] is a series of videos on the processes of constructing the space; it tracks the efforts made in the production of the pieces that have intervened in the Monoambiente gallery space.

This video shows both how Martín Churba and his team creatively encroached on the gallery space and Tregua’s conception of the dress as object of material experimentation.

Direction: Laura Preger
Collaboration: Mora Basch

 

Monoambiente in Barzón Magazine

Monoambiente is the first and only architecture and design gallery in the city of Buenos Aires whose objective is to promote the production of design disciplines by creating a space for reflection, discussion and exhibition, with the aim of re-establishing them as a cultural feature of the city.

In this desire to make the work produced by contemporary architects and designers accessible to the general public, this link arose with the magazine Barzón, which collaborates with the reproduction of pieces specially produced to celebrate each one of the exhibitions throughout 2013.

Luis Úrculo, a Spanish architect whose work questions the barriers between graphic language / architecture / design as something unique, to be understood and worked on as a whole, is the first to intervene in the Monoambiente sheet in Barzón magazine.
In this issue we present the Trophies series, which seeks to highlight the morphological relationship between plastic awards worthy of the purest sporting amateurism and neoclassical architecture.

Trophies by Luis Úrculo

Archive

Intervention plans M. Churba

Accesories by Tregua

Kermesse 01

We celebrated the closing of Show #05 with a big Kermesse in the Gallery.
Identified with neighbourhood festivals, we put together a different event with raffles, auctions, games with prizes from La Feliz, Ignacio Coló, Negro™, Gonzalo Arbutti, Bulla, Alex Kehayoglou, Martin Churba, Tregua and Normal™.

The main piece will be the raffle of the carpet titled Potrero by Alexandra Kehayoglou presented in the gallery’s Exhibition #03.
For this purpose, a limited series of 55 (fifty-five) numbered Posters from the series Yuyo (silkscreen on carpet), designed by Negro™, will be offered for sale at a single price of $350 (three hundred and fifty) Argentinean pesos.

The minimum number of participants required to carry out the raffle is 30 (thirty) numbers.
Posters can be purchased until the day of the Kermesse at 21:00 hrs, time of the raffle (limited number of tickets).

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