From today until the 25th of February opens in the Design Center of Matadero Madrid the artistic installation designed by Nacho Carbonell in collaboration with Cervezas Alhambra, conceived as a meeting point in the city. Integrated into the project “crear/sin/prisa” creating/without/hurry – the initiative of the brewery to promote, through collaboration with artists and artisans, a lifestyle that invites one to take the time to enjoy things – the work is inspired by the Courtyard of Lions of the Alhambra in Granada and was manufactured with barley paste and more than 10,000 bottles of Alhambra fused beer. Since the onset of the collaboration between Nacho Carbonell and Cervezas Alhambra for this project, and due to this brand’s connection to the Alhambra, the designer and artist born in Valencia and established in Eindhoven have been thinking of this fabulous monument as a source of inspiration in his design. The installation of open transparent figures is his allusion to the Courtyard of the Lions. The idea of open space and the arrangement of the group of chairs incites the public to take time to open their senses and observe. The high-backed chairs, reminiscent of the stylised svelte wood in the thin support columns at the Alhambra bear large display cases in which the nature of the light has an important function, creating lights and shadows dictated by the design of the bottles in an array of geometric decorations. The installation is part of the program of Madrid Design Festival.
