Exhibitions
Wearing a suit at the San Telmo Museum
Travel back in time, specifically to the 18th and 19th centuries, to learn about the evolution of fashion through 130 pieces and a floral leitmotif. These are the elements of "Vestido un Jardín ," the temporary exhibition created by San Telmo Museoa in conjunction with the Museo del Traje (Costume Museum) under the curatorship of Gema Batanero. A complete, detailed, and exhaustive tour that showcases floral motifs alongside the fashions that emerged between the Baroque and the Enlightenment in the textile field.
The core of Dressing a Garden is the collections of both museums, but it also incorporates funds from the National Archaeological Museum, the National Museum of Decorative Arts, the Royal Botanical Garden, and the Museum of Fine Arts of Valencia, among others. The exhibition will be open from June 7 to September 28 at the San Telmo Museum in San Sebastián.
Photo of the room: Iker Azurmendi
The representations in these fabrics and pieces reflect the important and profound changes taking place during those centuries, in parallel with new artistic, scientific, and philosophical ideas. It's interesting to see how contemporary pieces, contemporary garments, and Basque fashion designers such as Balenciaga, Modesto Lomba, and Fernando Lemoniez coexist.
A tour that unfolds through six distinct areas, beginning with The Forest of Furies , heading into the 18th century and the explosion of textile creativity: bizarre fabrics based on a fantastical setting, mixing naturalistic flora with unrecognizable ones. From there, it's on to the naturalistic still life and its point-rentré .
Ingeles erako bakeroa. English-style cowboy. Costume Museum
The exhibition continues with botanical studies, the theme of beauty, the flowers of illustration, and a country party as its finale. Rococo develops the gallant feast, the social enjoyment of the countryside. The entire exhibition revolves around a chronological view that develops the evolution of floral motifs through styles and influences. This linear journey also integrates several cross-cutting themes, such as the training of designers, the development of different textile techniques, advances in botany and science, and eighteenth-century imagery surrounding nature.
