aLTURAS DE mACcHU pICcHU
Martin chambi - áLVARO SIZA AT WORK
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Exposição
CCA | Montreal | 26.01.2012 – 22.04.2012
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Portuguese architect Álvaro
Siza travelled to Peru in 1995 with his usual baggage: only a few changes of
clothes, some books of poetry, and a single sketchbook. This was the toolkit he
used to interpret the voyage and integrate it into his architecture.
More than half a century earlier, Peruvian
photographer Martín Chambi had taken his famous series of portraits of the
archaeological site at Macchu Picchu. His project was more political, it acted
as a re-appropriation of the site by its locals, but the tools of Chambi and
Siza are the same: the production of images to define a reality.
Alturas de Macchu Picchu combines a loan of material from Siza’s archive
with Chambi’s photos in the CCA Collection. The exhibition presents
the work of sketching and its relevance to architectural practice, with Siza’s
1977 housing development in Évora, Portugal, as a case study.
Alturas de Macchu Piccchu is the title of the second part of Pablo Neruda’s Canto General.
Special thanks to the
Archivo fotografico Martín Chambi, and Álvaro Siza, Tereza Siza, António Dias,
Anabela Monteiro, Chiara Porcu, Roberto Cremascoli and Enrico Molteni.
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