"It is fashion, but it is closer to sculpture," admitted designer Miguel Marinero regarding his exhibition Del Arte, del Artista y del Territorio, at the National Museum of Decorative Arts until April 24th. It is a collection consisting of 29 garments made by Marinero parting from the intervention of sculptor Agustín Ibarrola in the breakwater of the fishing port of Llanes, Asturias, known as Los cubos de la memoria.
Ibarrola's work represents a fusion of the characteristic features of the artist with the cultural and historical memory of the area. Marinero affronts this from the point of view of fashion to transform each polyhedral piece dreamed of by the sculptor into creations of human dimensions. "I feel the desire to carefully peel each face from the jetties; they are full of life, and these lives I want to sew and turn them into leather garments ".
Thus, each piece of lamb leather, cut, dyed, sewn and painted by hand, keeps its own story that combines three parallel universes: creator, work and place. Parts that "are not to be worn" as Marinero says, but to be enjoyed as sculptures of a memory and a reflection about colours, textures and shapes.
