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Galleria d’arte fotografia Beaubourg Centre Pompidou
“In occasione del 40° anno della realizzazione del Beaubourg ho voluto dare il mio contributo con una lettura fotografica della grande macchina calata nel centro di Parigi. In questa fotografia che ho chiamato “Cathedrals” ho voluto mostrare come la costruzione estremamente seriale e tecnologica realizzata da Renzo Piano e Richard Rogers abbia delle affinità con la vicina chiesa gotica di Saint Merry, posta poco distante.
Il Beaubourg, come la chiesa gotica sono costituiti da elementi strutturali seriali. Entrambi gli elementi sono chiaramente dichiarati all’esterno del volume (le colonne e tiranti in acciaio per l’uno e gli archi e pilastri e archi in pietra per l’altra). Il punto di vista che ho scelto permette di intersecare le due forme antiche e moderne. In questa immagine le due architetture appaiono come un unico complesso architettonico. Con la stampa in resino-pigmentype ho cercato di uniformare la “texture” in acciaio del Centro Pompidou con quella in pietra della chiesa.”
Galleria d’arte fotografia / Photography art gallery. The Georges Pompidou Center, better known as Beaubourg, was inaugurated on 31 January 1977. This year (2017) the festivities for the first 40 years of activity of the cultural center were announced. The Beaubourg serves as a public cultural center entirely dedicated to modern art and there are several departments within it. The departments are dedicated to design, music, research in the field of acoustics, modern art in general. There is also a public information library.
“On the occasion of the 40th year of the Beaubourg, I wanted to give my contribution with a photographic reading of the big machine in the center of Paris In this photograph I called” Cathedrals “I wanted to show how the extremely serial and technological construction realized Renzo Piano and Richard Rogers have affinities with the nearby Gothic church of Saint Merry, not far away.
The Beaubourg, like the Gothic church are made up of serial structural elements. Both elements are clearly declared outside the volume (the steel columns and rods for one and the arches and pillars and stone arches for the other). The point of view I have chosen allows us to intersect the two ancient and modern forms. In this image the two architectures appear as a single architectural complex. With the print in resin-pigmentype I tried to standardize the steel “texture” of the Pompidou Center with the stone one of the church. “
