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  • 2 days ago
Design exhibit highlights functionality, art

Co-founder of Diwa.dezenyo Marco Padayao, shares with the Manila Times why they chose to highlight wooden stools for the exhibit, saying that their goal was to showcase that functionality and art can work.

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Transcript
00:00Okay, so can you share with us what the exhibit is all about?
00:05So, Diwa Desenyo is, we're having this collaboration with local artists where we collaborate on stools.
00:14So, Diwa Desenyo designs the stools and we collab with selected artists, local artists, where they will be painting on the stools.
00:23And we kind of like showcase it as like a collector's item piece.
00:29So, there are 16 artists and then there are 15 stools.
00:32So, that's the whole event theme of Guapara that we wanted to achieve in this exhibition.
00:39Now, what was the reason behind the show piece of stools?
00:43Because I think a lot of people with the stools go, it's just a niche, I guess, form of art, you know.
00:50So, what's the reason behind that?
00:52I feel like we decided to pick these stools because we wanted to, it was the best way to showcase functionality and art where we blend the two together.
01:05Where we could use it as its main purpose while also having that form of appearance and look where you can display it.
01:15And at the same time, you know, we can use it as like a functional piece.
01:18So, I feel like we, that's why we decided to do the stools itself.
01:23So, it's like blending artistry and something that's right around you.
01:27Exactly.
01:28Exactly.
01:29How about the selection process, like choosing the 16 artists, right?
01:33Yes, right.
01:34So, there are 16 artists and then 15 stools.
01:37And it was my godmother, her name is Sigwada Nicolai, she's also an artist.
01:43She was, she's the event curator of this event, this exhibition and she was the one who gathered all these artists, different art styles.
01:53And with the stools, I wanted to design three different stools with three different inspirations so it can kind of like blend with the artists and their work.
02:04So, she was the one who gathered the shortlist artist.
02:07Oh, cool.
02:08And yeah, it's like a wide range of them.
02:10Oh, and what was her selection process, do you think?
02:14Yeah, selection process and terms of...
02:16Oh, the artists.
02:17And it was, it was more on Sigwada's side.
02:22She was the event curator.
02:24So, she just proposed the idea of shortlisting the artists that she thought, she believed that would work for this exhibition and the stools itself.
02:36So, she was the one who assigned the stools to the artists based on their art style and based on the design as well.
02:42Which agency, which area she was evaluating in was.
02:46She thought, was that it does not cool.
02:48She's an artist.
02:49trajectory just came from a switch.
02:50With the art style you are going to play art style, that would work to be paved.
02:53This is the same, easier, is something the first step we got to do with.
02:55story.
03:00Which woman, by the way, we have one