Between the architectural space and the natural element. Paula Anta

Activity

The architect's desk 8

General public, Professionals

31 March 2022

In this talk I will take a tour through several photographic series where a dialogue is established between architectural space and the different elements of nature that are introduced into the image, almost as if in staged scenes. My work deals especially with nature and artificiality, and I have focused in many series on architectural elements as creators of "artifice" through the hand of man.

In nature one connects with the origin, in it we can observe calmly. It is a place to which we belong and it is essential. In the landscape there are no distractions. That essential place interests me, attracts me. But I am also attracted to its relationship or its link with the artificial, with the creative ability of which the human being is capable. I believe that the capacity that human beings have to artificially reproduce the natural is a skill, and this skill is also linked to imagination. In this sense, I understand the architectural as the creative capacity of the human being that coexists with the natural element.

In my work, the relationship I establish between nature and artificiality does not move in the field of confrontation, nor even of denunciation, but rather I establish a point of coexistence, of affirmation of each of their realities through their convergence. In reality, it is like a mutual accompaniment of these two opposite realities. I create a possible situation, I take nature or that artificial space beyond its real possibilities.

Coordinated by: Santiago Varela

In collaboration with: Territorial College of Architects of Alicante.

Information

Opening hours: 7:00 PM
Duration: 90 minutes
Type of activity: Design and Architecture
Modality: At the museum

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Program to which it belongs

The architecture table

General public ... , 29.01.2015 - 17.12.2026

The Museum of Contemporary Art in Alicante whose collections are formed by works created fundamentally in the twentieth century. They range from the so-called avant-gardes to all the approaches and artistic manifestations that took place in the decades of the second half of the past century. They are expressed on different supports and materials, with diverse dimensions and techniques. In turn, the temporary exhibitions are related to these collections and allow for expanding or deepening some aspects of contemporary chronology. However, contemporary architecture is absent from both the permanent collections and those temporary manifestations.The architecture of the MACA itself, a project created and directed by the Sancho Madridejos Studio, is a beautiful building of great functional efficiency. The syncopated projection of horizontal and vertical spaces establishes a formal order based on the geometry and texture of the materials used in construction, while revealing a kind of tension resolved by the overhead passage of light, a kind of "felt" spirituality more emotional than real.The MACA proposes in a conversational format, meetings around art and architecture around the architect's table. In the MACA Library, the last Thursdays of each month, from January to May 2015.This first cycle will consist of different manifestations. The first and fundamental one will show works by an architect related through his vital and professional activity to the province of Alicante. The selection criterion will be conditioned by the modernity of the proposals, understanding that modernity, first of all, in a chronological sense, attending to those architectures and architects who were protagonists and participants in the advent of contemporaneity. The exhibition of some models will allow for offering three-dimensional models, reclaiming the model as such, as the authors of the Renaissance defended. And to illustrate the complete work process, sketches and preliminary drawings will be shown alongside the project plans and notes developed during the construction process. All of this with the ultimate aim of understanding and grasping in some way the constructed space.The architect's table, a table from 1912, real and present (deposited in the MACA by its owner Alfonso Navarro Guzmán), serves as an ideological foundation to link the exhibitions and will serve as the material support for the models so that we can traverse, while dreaming, the imagined space.

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