Art, craft and extinction

New technologies, gentrification or simply the lack of interest of the new generations mean that old trades that are still part of the urban fabric are in clear danger of extinction. Trades that, in many cases, correspond to small family businesses inherited from parents to children and that guard much more than technical knowledge - we can even talk about trades with an artistic dimension.

With this exhibition I propose a small tribute to all those trades that, like that of this modest printer and typographer of a small printing house, will disappear with their retirement and without the possibility of continuity, leaving behind a space that will probably become the object of urban speculation.

Jorge Alba