‘This exhibition intends to show a work of restitution of omitted vestiges’, explains González. It is therefore an archival task ‘based on processing the object so that it does not become corrupted by oblivion and may be interpreted through its scale and dimension’. The artist has selected buildings that were never erected, such as the Governor’s Palace in Chandigarh, India; Villa Paul Prado in Buenos Dauphin 10 | Dionisio González, 2012 | Courtesy of Ivorypress Aires, Argentina, and the Museum of Unlimited Growth, in Algeria, to restitute them and, at the same time, to destruct them.
The photographer makes the unrealised projects of the master of modern architecture explode, following the idea of philosopher Heidegger that ‘every unbuilt project is a ruin’. The non-execution becomes here ‘a silent and silenced destruction, an explosion which, in this case, implodes’.
With this series, which will be open at Ivorypress Space until 13 July, the artist approaches the concept of space, ‘a nowhere-place that takes us to a state of utopia which, in itself, is characterised as being nowhere, as no place’, González notes.
The show also includes various works from the series Dauphin Island, recently created by the artist and inspired by the island of the same name, in the state of Alabama, USA. ‘My interest in Dauphin Island comes from the study of aquatic architecture and stilt houses that originated in the Neolithic Era’, explains González. Dauphin is an island in the Gulf of Mexico that has suffered numerous natural catastrophes and for which the artist has imagined ‘innovative projects that give shape to new habitable structures in the perceptual vacuums of those spaces that had previously been devastated’.
Ivorypress presents DIONISIO GONZÁLEZ Le Corbusier: The Last Project
Opening with presence of the artist : 30 May 2013 at 7:30 p.m.
Venue : Ivorypress c/ Comandante Zorita 48 (Madrid)
Exhibition : From 30 May to 13 July 2013
