Diorama Penetrable (Carlos Raúl Villanueva)
4 books about the work of the architect Carlos Raúl Villanueva cut and glued
installation at U-TURN, project room for ArteBA, Buenos Aires 2012
For U-TURN project rooms at ArteBa 2012 I present an installation that explores
the Venezuelan pavillion at the expo of Montreal of 1967, an architecture designed
by Carlos
Raúl Villanueva that hosted a work of art done by Jesús Rafael Soto. The ArteBA installation works as a
museum display that relates the two fairs and explore the use of modern art and
state representation. The center of the installation is occupied by the
work Diorama Penetrable, a fragile recreation of Soto’s “Penetrable”, made with
strips of paper obtained from 4 books about the architecture of Villanueva. On
the walls, the serie Variación entrópica, compositions in
which full and empty spaces confronts the surface of Villanueva’s architecture
with the concept of entropy. The third piece is a monochromatic wall painting called
“Amarillo Nacional” made with the colour used in one façade of 1967’s pavilion.