"El sueño de la razón produce monstruos“
(The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters),
Francisco de Goya y Lucientes, Spanish painter, 1746-1828.
What are the properties that characterise a delicate monster? Force and the power to intimidate us? Or fragility and the ability to show true vulnerability? If a "monster" can be described by the following definitions: - an animal or plant of unusual and alarming form or structure
- a terrifying force, something unusually large for its kind
- something whose behaviour or character deviates from the norm or a person of unnatural or extreme ugliness, deformity, maliciousness and cruelty
- something that is extraordinarily successful
and "delicate" means: - pleasant to the senses
- characterised by lovely, enticing colours, lines and proportions
- possessing a fine structure, composition or nature, tactful and adept
- having a weak constitution or health, fragile
- easily damaged or unsettled, requiring careful, adroit handling
- characterised by pronounced sensitivity and precisioncharacterised by pronounced sensitivity and precision
What is a delicate monster? Perhaps a creature that lives in a beautiful setting, one like Boisbuchet? We might encounter it in the depths of the woods, in the waters of the lake, in the castle or lying on the fields ... Monsters are products of our imagination. Each monster has its very own characteristics, its own "genetic code" that it inherits from its creator. This statement can be understood as something of a metaphor for the creation of a design project. The course invites all participants to unleash a delicate monster during the workshop week.
Gala Fernandez
Born in Madrid in 1969. Art and design studies at the Facultad de Bellas Artes de la Universidad Computense de Madrid. Postgraduate studies in the area of industrial design at the Istituto Europeo de Design in Milan, where Gala also taught while working as a freelance designer. She has lectured at the Royal College of Art, London, Goldsmith College, London, and the Nederland Architectuur Instituut, Rotterdam. Gala presently is a consultant for Fabrica, the Benetton communications center, and she lives in London were she runs her company: Gala Fernandez Ltd.
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