Installation
for the III biennal of spanish architecture Madrid-Comillas. 1995-1997. Exhibiting
architecture raises two fundamental questions: what is it that is likely to
be communicate? And how to create another superimposed architecture wich accepts
its fugacity as something positive, wich takes it meaning from this? It proved
attractive to arrange the 28 works in the biennial as a group of discoursing
automata capable, through their disposition, scale and variety, of building
another spatial experience, which invites us to pass, look, hear, study, choose
or collide with some more specialized place. In contrast to traditional or more
hyper-technified exhibition systems, the immediate model of the talk or conference
with slides- light and voices in a semi –dark hall- undoubtedly promises more
effective and intense transmission of the architecture. It seemed beguiling
to have that virtual space constructed by the stroller himself as he approached
the automata, that wanderer would activate all the devices and each time construct
a different visual and acoustic experience, both personal and individual, thereby
implicating subject and objects. But this architecture of colors and sounds
built with the hope of another architectures, needs a support which gives it
meaning and naturalness. The pavement conceived by Gerard Richter obviated the
need for further effort: the same identification could emerge from it traditional
architectures have their natural support, this celebration of fantasy constructed
through the fantasies of others. This magic carpet would deposit us in each
place, reacting always in a different way: in Comillas playing with the byzantine
and jesuitical modernismo of Doménech i Montaner; in Madrid resisting the affirmative
sense of the civic architecture of Secundio Zuazo...