Mies van der Rohe Foundation presents Big Bang Building Light! by the artist Mario Pasqualotto in the framework of the Llum Barcelona festival and the Santa Eulàlia festivities, in collaboration with SIMON and ProtoPixel, who have contributed the control system and the design of the light experience.

A new look that adds to the program of interventions in the Pavilion, following the 2019 performance "Geometry of Light, by Luftwerk & Iker Gil transform Mies van der Rohe pavilion".
A line of light redraws the Mies van der Rohe Pavilion and offers new looks in successive phases that highlight the Essential architecture as if it were in a constructive plane: the pillars, the plinth, the decks, the edges, the vertical and the horizontal lines, the travertine pieces, the interior and the exterior, the pond...

The projection of light and color accentuate the resounding horizontality of the Pavilion from the forecourt and changes the perception of its radical plastic beauty.

With the luminescent movement of lines and colors, Mario Pasqualotto wants to take us to a dynamic contemplative state in which the Pavilion is explained in a linear drawing of light that projects the image of a frontal elevation of vibrant light.
 
"The intervention proposes highlighting with lines and points of light the main architectural elements that generate the diaphanous spaces and walls of the Pavilion, as well as the process of its accelerated design and construction. It also intends to value, at the hours without sun, the environments sculpted by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and Lilly Reich, with dynamism through several lighting sequences and light silence that allow, in turn, to attend a spontaneous redrawn with light from the pencil strokes during virtual podium design, decks, walls and glazed elements called to configure representative environments."
Fernando Ramos
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From February 8 to 16 (except Thursday 13) of 2020 from 6:30 p.m. to 8 p.m. FREE ACCESS.
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Pabellón Mies van der Rohe. Avenida Francesc Ferrer i Guàrdia, 7 Barcelona. Spain.
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Anna Mas.
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Mario Pasqualotto born in Barcelona 1953, is an artist of wide-ranging interests: his creative activity encompasses many different fields of the plastic arts, including installations -performance- environments, sculpture, sculpture-painting, jewellery and the graphic arts.

Mario works mainly from his studio in Barcelona, which he considers his base. He also regularly spends seasons in Plainfield, New Jersey (US) and has worked in other locations in Spain and the USA, as well as in Italy and Germany. He first exhibited his work in Italy and Spain in 1975, with subsequent exhibitions in various European cities. See his currículum vitae on this site for further details of exhibitions as well as photographs of his works.

Pasqualotto usually works in series and each project involves the accumulation of large amounts of materials. In a lengthy process of selection and elimination are distilled into the final form.
 
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Published on: February 11, 2020
Cite: "Big Bang Building Light! by Mario Pasqualotto" METALOCUS. Accessed
<https://www.metalocus.es/en/news/big-bang-building-light-mario-pasqualotto> ISSN 1139-6415
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