Emoji, empathy, design. In a mini webserie of 5 videos filmed by Lorenzo Quagliozzi, Martí Guixé talks about the exhibition On Flower Power.

With the On Flower Power. The Role of the Vase in Arts, Crafts and Design, curated by Martí Guixé with Inga Knölke, the National Gallery of Modern and Contemporary Art explores the hybrid territory in which art, design and craftsmanship interact in a radical way and in a completely non-conventional way.

On display more than eighty works that reinterpret the tradition and iconography of the vase through design, photography, sculpture and painting.

The exhibition represents the first opportunity for the National Gallery to confront these languages in relation to contemporary art and focuses on an apparently neutral object: the vase of flowers. This element, a recurring archetype, becomes the medium of choice for a narrative that intertwines the history of art, the history of applied arts and the history of design.

Martí Guixé (Barcelona, 1964) is a designer, formed in Barcelona and Milan, whose work transcends the usual boundaries of this discipline. He has exhibited at the MoMA in New York, at the MACBA in Barcelona, at the Triennale in Milan, at the MART in Rovereto, at the Center Pompidou in Paris, at the Mudac in Lausanne and at the National Gallery of Modern and Contemporary Art in Rome.