Curatorial Rationale

The idea of this exhibition is Interior design and Cubism. Interior design has been something I have been passionate about for quite a long time and I wanted to challenge myself by combining art and interior design for the exhibition. Cubism is also one of my favorites art movements and I wanted to explore this movement further with interior design. Since I was a kid the first thing I would pay attention to when entering a house or any place was the interior and the placement of the furniture, light, color, etc and also the effect that the design had on the viewer. The artists that have influenced this exhibition have been David Hockney and Pablo Picasso. Both artists have explored the idea of interior design, cubism and cubist interior design in their collections which I have found pretty helpful for the exhibition and have used as inspiration. The message tried to convey in the exhibition is the many different ways interior design can be expressed in a room which explains why the exhibition feels repetitive as it expresses the changes of an interior design until it achieves the feeling the interiorist is looking for as well as it represents the development of human beings throughout their life.

The materials used in the exhibition have been collages done by me with the use of cut outs of different interior design magazines; photocopies of the collages and with the use of different colored pastels I have drawn lines on the photocopy creating joined lines and outlining the many elements of the collage which consisted of furniture; drawings with pastels on paper and acrylic paint on canvas and in them drawing lines throughout the painting; editing some of the drawings done digitally and printing a few of those paintings into canvas and an interactive structure made of thick paper which consists of the various drawings done. However, the materials used do not have an impact on the meaning of the work. The process of selecting the pieces that were going to be shown in the exhibition consisted of putting out in a table all the art pieces done so far and choosing the ones that I liked most and found very fitting with my idea and the message I am communicating. A few pieces are made up of 2 or 3 drawings which I felt were connected to each other and reminded me of the way everything connects to each other in interior design to create a feeling of peace and space.

As for the arrangement of the exhibition, I have decided to place the big painting in a corner to attract the viewer’s attention and have that piece being the first one being looked at and the drawings made up of several drawings were placed next to each other as the lighting highlighted the use of colors and the lines drawn into the pieces. Within those 3 works, in the middle appears to show a black and white piece which has been placed like so to express the contrast of light and color between the three pieces as well as with he black and white digital print on the canvas placed under the large vertical piece in the other corner. The interactive is found in the middle as I think is a piece that perfectly represents the message of the exhibition. The brown-orange canvas print next to the sculpture shows a similar pattern to the big canvas on top of it but with different colors, therefore, creating a different vibe to the piece and the colorful drawing next to the canvas print has been placed in the corner to show a softer side of interiors with the use of softer colors. The arrangement of the exhibition guides the viewer through different drawings of a similar piece to show how much an interior changes with the use of color, lines and different elements.