Carlo Scarpa's Tomba Brion: Photographs by Guido Guidi, 1997-2007
11 September 2009 to 10 January 2010, Octagonal Gallery
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Italian photographer Guido Guidi captures notions of time, space, and light in the Brion family mausoleum in Italy, considered to be architect Carlo Scarpa’s masterpiece.
The artist’s 54 colour photographs reveal the beauty of the funerary complex, its clean architectural lines, and the poetic nature of Scarpa’s work. By concentrating on particular architectural features, Guidi invites the viewer to look beyond the whole. “In essence, I considered Scarpa’s architecture not only as a manufactured object, but also as a machine through which to look at time. Or rather, architecture in its ‘becoming,’ as shadows on a wall that recall volumetric projections drawn in countless mutations on a sheet of paper,” he explains.
Carlo Scarpa’s Tomba Brion: Photographs by Guido Guidi, 1997-2007 is curated by Louise Désy, CCA Curator of Photographs.