As part of Boiler Room ‘ s new exhibition programme, Luis Adelantado Valencia is pleased to present the graphic design collective Aplec de disseny, whose first exhibition Secció editorial will take place on 29 October.
As the text by Álvaro de los Ángeles describes Designing until the gesture disappears “The exhibition Secció editorial is the staging and first presentation of a joint intention. The publications brought together show mainly art catalogues, although also self-published publications or own publishing houses, llibrets de falla renovadores and the editorial project d[x]i with its derived satellites, all of them diverse examples of a design that seems to recover a taste for rhythms, including within these the pause and even silence. Perhaps the only thing that links these sophisticated and complex levels of reading that stand out is the will of a voice of its own – individuality on the fringes of the collective encounter – that rescues simplicity in its approaches and seems unbribable in its results”.
This group formed by six designers share generation and interests as a collective, beyond their individual trajectory there is a joint conceptualisation, a way of understanding design that is reflected in the following statement: “The publications transpire a certain freedom of movement won for the project (and previously won for the designer) offering an extra space of sober, balanced, but existing creative licences, after all “.
In line with Boiler Room ‘ s exhibition line, which aims to establish connections and hybridise different creative practices, more than 50 editorial projects linked to the world of culture and design, created between 2000 and the present day, will be shown. Aplec de disseny is made up of Sebastián Alós, Dídac Ballester, Antonio Ballesteros, Alejandro Benavent, Enrique Casp and Ibán Ramón, with the aim of showing their work and opening a small forum for debate and reflection on graphic design.