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CV tota reciclados

• Marcela Muñiz (1959) earned a degree in Architecture at the University of Buenos Aires in 1983. Her current interest lies in translating her background in tridimensional design into the making of meaningful objects related to her own history and experience, working with the materials she has at hand. She was an invited artist at the Akademie Schloss Solitude in Stuttgart, Germany (2005) and at the Studio Rian de Jong Residence - Stichting Françoise van den Bosch (Amsterdam, 2013).
• Valeria Hasse (1963) studied Graphic Design at the University of Buenos Aires and has completed a post-graduate in Design at the Jan van Eyck Academie in Maastricht (Netherlands). Her main focus lies in close collaborations with artists, designers, curators and theorists. Her work has a wide range of formats from exhibitions, publications, set design to jewelry design. She was artist-in-Residence at the Akademie Schloss Solitude in Stuttgart (2004-2005) and at the Studio Rian de Jong Residence invited by the Stichting Françoise van den Bosch (Amsterdam 2013).
  
  
  Solo exhibitions:   
• 2015 Broken memories, precarious links. Faculty of Fine Arts, Saimaa University of Applied Sciences, Imatra, Finland (KORU 5)   
• 2014/15 Broken memories, precarious links. CODA Museum, Apeldoorn, Netherlands 
• 2013 Broken memories (Work in progress) - Galerie Achter de ramen - Amsterdam  
• 2007 Vitrine - Gallery V&V - Vienna   
• 2005 Found in a box - Akademie Schloss Solitude - Stuttgart   
• 2004 Urban garden - Akademie Schloss Solitude - Stuttgart
  
  Group exhibitions (selected):  
• 2015 Alternatives in Textile Jewelry III - Gallery V&V - Vienna
• 2015 Alternatives in Textile Jewelry III - X Gallery – Bratislava
• 2015 Beyond textile - 21 jewellers from Argentina  - Galería Context - Barcelona  
• 2014 Beyond textile - 21 jewellers from Argentina  - Galería Lalabeyou - Madrid  
• 2014 Beyond textile - 21 jewellers from Argentina  - Instituto Cervantes - Utrecht  
• 2014 Beyond textile - 21 jewellers from Argentina  - Galerie CEBRA - Dusseldorf  
• 2014 Textiel in sieraden  - Galerie help u zelven - Winterswijk  
• 2012/2013 Unexpected Pleasures – art and design in contemporary jewellery. Design Museum, London.  
• 2012 Needlework - Galerie Handwerk - Munich  
• 2012 Alternatives in Textile Jewelry II - X Gallery – Bratislava 
• 2012 Unexpected Pleasures – art and design in contemporary jewellery. National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne.  
• 2011/2012 Jewelry exhibition Lagd i verden (Made in the world). The National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design, Oslo, Norway.  
• 2011 Brooch. Sterling Gallery. Budapest  
• 2011 Cruzando fronteras: Del textil a la joya. Villa Victoria, Mar del Plata, Argentina  
• 2011 Cruzando fronteras: Del textil a la joya II. Casa de la Cultura. Fondo Nacional de las Artes, Buenos Aires, Argentina  
• 2011 Del textil a la joya. Cuarta Bienal Internacional de arte textil 2011 – Mexico DF  
• 2011 Jewellery exhibition Lagd i verden. The National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design, Oslo, Noruega  
• 2010 Del textil a la joya. Museo de Artesanías José Hernández, Buenos Aires, Argentina   
• 2010 Heterogeneidad en el Río de la Plata, Metalistería Gallery in Area Gris, Hotel Virreyes, Mexico, DF  
• 2010 Heterogeneidad en el Río de la Plata - Tienda Malba, Buenos Aires, Argentina  
• 2009 Schmuck 09 - RMIT Gallery –Melbourne  
• 2009 2nd Sustainable Design Festival. Buenos Aires  
• 2009 Alternatives in Textile Jewelry - X Gallery – Bratislava   
• 2009 Schmuck 09. International Trade Fair Exhibition, Munich  
• 2009 Challenging the Chatelaine - Philadelphia Art Alliance.   
• 2008/2009 Challenging the Chatelaine - Künstlerhaus, Vienna.   
• 2008 1st Sustainable Design Festival. Buenos Aires |  
• 2008 Integrando al Futuro. Centro Metropolitano de Diseño. Buenos Aires  
• 2008 Challenging the Chatelaine - Stedelijk Museum’s-Hertogenbosch | Challenging the Chatelaine - Design Museum, Ghent | Contemporary Jewelry  
• 2007 Challenging the Chatelaine - Museum of Art and Design, Tallinn | Challenging the Chatelaine - Lalaounis Jawelry Museum, Athens  
• 2006 Zoom - Festival de Diseño de Buenos Aires   
• 2006/2007 Challenging the Chatelaine - Design Museum - Helsinki   
• 2005 RE-CY I - Gallery V&V - Vienna   
• 2004 Shift! Re-appropieted - Berlin  
• 2003 Monserrat Arte & Moda - Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes - Buenos Aires
  
  Artwork in Public and Private Collections:   
• CODA Museum, Apeldoorn, the Netherlands -The National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design, Oslo, Norway.  
• Stichting Françoise van den Bosch, NL
• Collection Helen Drutt English, USA.
• Collection Marjan Unger, NL.
• Collection Carin Reinders, NL.
• Collection Miecke Oostermann, NL.
• Collection Claartje Kuur, NL. Collection Sara Visbeek and Jeroen Redel, NL. 

Where to find us?

Where to find us?

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www.instagram.com/totareciclados/ 
www.totareciclados.com.ar
info@totareciclados.com.ar

Broken memories, precarious links

Broken memories, precarious links

Fragments of old jewellery and everyday

objects, bits of fabric, photos, illustrations

and other memorabilia; they lie around

unused and rarely looked at in kitchen

drawers, nightstands or boxes in the

attic. But they are not thrown away. After

all, they tell personal stories or represent

precious memories. During their stay in

Amsterdam, Tota Reciclados – formed

by Argentinian designers Valeria Hasse

and Marcela Muñiz – invited neighbours,

artists and students to donate these

kinds of objects and materials and to

share the stories attached to them.

They used the materials they were

given in jewels that together make up a

collection. In return each participant will

get back a specifically designed piece of

the final collection, including part or all

the material they left behind, mixed with

other material.

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Commissions

Commissions

Tota Reciclados, a jewelry collective from Buenos Aires, was initiated in 2002 in reaction to the deep economic crisis in Argentina. When the economy collapsed many people lost everything they owned, which lead to riots and looting but also resulted in a lively barter trade. 

Tota Reciclados started making jewellery out of discarded materials and objects, giving them a second life, and recycling the objects we found around us. Recently, our interest has shifted from waste material to objects that are given by other people. We think people relate to each other in the exchange of stories and objects, and we want to recuperate this kind of exchange instead of the purely commercial exchange.

For us sharing and co-creation are an important part of the design process.

in the past few years we have been working with materials given to us because they often tell a unique story and it’s a starting point to create a piece of jewelry enriched with the development of a personal relationship.

These are some examples of this kind of commissions, always working with material provided for our clients, mixed with our own, you can see sketches and final pieces...

Necklace for Miecke (2014)

Carolina Necklace (2013)

Cecilia Necklace (2013)

Necklace for Queca (2014)

Necklace for Queca's daughter (2014)

tota reciclados / recycled jewelry

TOTA RECICLADOS

Valeria Hasse & Marcela Muñiz

The Argentinian duo Tota Reciclados consists of designers Valeria Hasse (1963) and Marcela Muñiz (1959). Valeria Hasse was trained as a graphic designer at the University of Buenos Aires. After that, she followed a postgraduate course at the Jan van Eyck Academy in Maastricht (2000). Marcela Muñiz is an architect who also studied at the University of Buenos Aires. She was Artist in Residence at the Akademie Schloss Solitude in Stuttgart, Germany in 2005. Hasse and Muñiz are based in Buenos Aires but travel all over the world with their projects and workshops. Their work is part of several private collections, the collection of CODA Museum in Apeldoorn, Netherlands and the collection of the National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design in Oslo, Norway. Tota Reciclados were selected as Artists in Residence by the Françoise van den Bosch Foundation in 2013. During their stay in Studio Rian de Jong in Amsterdam they developed Broken Memories, Precarious Links, creating a new jewellery collection with its own story, made up of old materials and existing stories and memories. The concluding exhibition with the same title was staged in CODA Museum from 21 September 2014 to 11 January 2015.

Tota reciclados started developing an experimental project based in recycling discarded material in the beginning of 2002.

This project begun out of the interest of designing and creating new objects from collected, inherited and found objects, in the context of a huge economical crisis in Argentina in December 2001. Working only with material available in the surroundings became the starting point of the creative process, using discarded things to comment on the cultural world where we come from. We reuse materials and objects trying to emphasize the mixture, in order to create jewels to be worn.

Instead of traditional jewelry techniques we work assembling different elements using wire and threads, closer to the idea of provisory rather than eternal. We like to feel that the objects we recover are not trapped in a new “prison”, somehow they have “freedom”: they can move and they can be recycled again.

We collect and group found items in order to refabricate objects into something new. "Precarious” versus “precious”: the tension created between these two concepts is always present in our work; we try to make it visible since we never hide when an object is worn or deteriorated, nor try to fix it or look “perfect”.

For us, anything can be an object for collecting. Classification, as a form of logical restriction, is the starting point of our work. We classify to place things in order, to establish a control over them. Our atelier is a world full of boxes divided into formal categories: shapes, colors, materials; but sometimes we need to create new categories using our intuition: “super kitsch”, “grandmother’s”, “small hands”, “babies”, “so beautiful that intimidates”…

Recycling for us involves notions of assembling, recombining, including chance, serendipity, mistakes, failures, improvisation, fragmentary and hybrid. Each piece is at the same time unique and multiple, solid and open for different uses and meanings.

We try to find new connections and meanings when we construct a new piece: the found objects start to talk to each other. For us, this process of recombining and recontextualizing objects, images and ideas is a metaphor for the way in which meaning is constructed nowadays. We enjoy making jewelry pieces also to produce the desire of wearing them. The relationship between the piece and the wearer show us how jewelry can reflect the changes of our time.