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21/04
Views. Intimate Landscapes
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Collection exhibition
. Girona
Organizes
Centre Obert d’Arquitectura
COAC
Place
Pl. Catedral, 8
Girona
Time
Business days from 9 to 16:30h
From the 4th to the 10th of March, the exhibition will remain closed for renovations.
Price
Free
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In the exhibition, architect and photographer Carles Sánchez presents a journey where he shows the less familiar aspect of the aquatic landscape of the Costa Brava to discover a new reality, engage with the environment, and reveal to the visitor new landscapes that have always been there.
This project consists of 20 photographs composed to form, in a way, a collage. Each of them, however, has a second reading. While at first glance we find an image with an abstract point, as we stop we can analyze the complexity of the landscape it represents. We will find the wrinkles of the rocks, the erosion caused by the water, the small mollusks that have settled there, the settled vegetation, the little animals that mark the sand…
The photographs are paired or grouped almost naturally by compositional or content resemblance, so that this journey wanders from the hardest and darkest to the clear and soft image.
Carles Sánchez Fernández
(Girona, 1991) Architect trained at the University of Girona and the Politecnico di Milano. Before starting his solo career as an architect, he collaborated in studios such as RCR Arquitectes, Camps Felip Arquitecturia, and Rafael Moneo, the latter thanks to obtaining the ARQUIA Scholarship. A self-taught photographer, always attracted to photography, he works with architecture and landscape and explores different analog and alternative processes. He has been published in international media such as El Croquis, A+U, ArquitecturaViva, or Quaderns, and has been awarded various national awards.
Views Cycle
The Views cycle is a cultural initiative of the Open Architecture Center, sponsored by Cosentino Barcelona, which involves all the demarcations of the COAC (College of Architects of Catalonia). It consists of a series of exhibitions that weave through the entire territory in a collaborative manner, showcasing local heritage through the lens of a photographer and their narrative around the connection with the four elements of nature: water, earth, air, and fire.
Each of these elements will be the subject of an annual exhibition, represented by a different photographer, completing the series over four years and enriching the legacy of the COAC Historical Archive with the donation of photographic records that will construct the exhibitions. In this way, from a local perspective, we will share and debate commitments of a global nature.
Exhibitions dedicated to water:
- Water as a shaper of the territory, by Mariano Cebolla (Ebro)
- River industries. Water as energy, by Judith Casas (Central Counties)
- Water and the sea, by Pep Escoda (Tarragona)
- Drought - lack of water. Aerial photos, by Carles Rabadà (Lleida)
- Intimate landscapes, by Carles Sánchez (Girona)
- Heritage of water architecture in Barcelona, by Anna Mas (Barcelona)