This exhibition celebrated TOPIC’s first ten years of age. Over the years, the centre has tried to organise exhibitions that showed different types of puppets, ranging from the most contemporary to the most traditional. They have all transported us a couple of centuries back, when puppet theatre was almost the only distraction enjoyed by children and adults alike. These were times when this artistic expression was used as the exclusive tool for political propaganda and the sole manner in which the people could let loose their discontent in a fun and subliminal way. The ‘stop motion’ technique is used in order to obtain any object’s animated movement, be it rigid or malleable, as could be toys, articulated dolls or those made from plasticine. It is a very artisanal animation technique, since movement is obtained by manipulating the object with one’s own hands one photogram at a time.
The presence of animating techniques, articulated dolls or artisanal techniques places this approach very close to puppets. The greatest difference would lie on the fact that a puppet show is live, unlike a ‘stop motion’ show where, by the time we see it, everything has been set beforehand. The award winner Coke Riobóo, an old acquaintance of ours thanks to the numerous ‘stop motion’ workshops that he has held together with his colleague Lourdes Villagómez, helped with the selection of figures that composed this exhibition. They both gathered the most varied array so that visitors were able to enjoy an exhibition that offered the most representative of animated cinema and several complementary activities.
Museum’s opening hours
From Tuesday to Friday
From 10:00 to 13:00 // From 16:00 to 19:00
Weekends and holidays
From 10:30 to 14:00 // From 16:00 to 19:30
Mondays: Closed
The museum will be closed on January 1 and 6, on January 5 in the afternoon; in Carnival from the 27th to the 5th, on June 24 for the San Juan festivities and on December 25. On December 24 and 31 in the afternoon.
Access to the theater will be closed 15 minutes after the start of the performance.
Tolosa Puppet
International Center
Euskal Herria Plaza
20400 Tolosa
Gipuzkoa