Del Cielo a Casa

As in a daily journal, the exhibition brings together over 600 pieces, including objects, artworks, and documents, which constitute Argentine everyday life. It advocates an ethnographic approach that goes beyond authorship or processes, inviting us to approach material culture through its uses, customs, rituals, and the symbolism these things generate within a society. A series of thematic constellations articulate the journey, where items are grouped without chronology, hierarchies, or disciplinary distinctions, thus transcending the boundaries of use and blurring the line between art and design. The exhibition encompasses three main areas: the identity of the territory, design beyond conventions, and the political, social, and economic vicissitudes of our country. Del Cielo a Casa does not propose a historiography of Argentine design but rather an essay on communal life condensed in objects: from grand utopian visions to everyday life, from a helicopter to a sneaker, from the Stent to the Pulpo ball. "Things for life," according to the definition of the avant-garde design pioneer Gerardo Clusellas (1929-1973). The opening of Del Cielo a Casa takes place sixty years after the first design exhibition in Argentina (CIDI, 1963) and coincides with the fortieth anniversary of the country's return to democracy, a turning point in our social and institutional life.