Architectural Bodies
Corpi d'Architettura
(1995 / 2022)
eng · ita
The photographs in which Pino Musi has interpreted La Chapelle Notre Dame du Haut, designed by Le Corbusier in Ronchamp, others, much acclaimed, that followed and conveyed Mario Botta’s public architectural projects, or that have translated into images Renzo Piano’s and Tadao Ando’s architectonic works, all hold a vibrant tension of the gaze that is at once strict and committed. Never indulgent, they bring about amazement, unexpected diversions, in a constant and ever thoughtful relation to architecture. In similar vein as his series made around the ruins and myths of Baia and Cumae, Pino Musi’s images are alive with a paradoxically archaic topicality. Un-denunciative of photography and yet filled with its impartial rigor, these images show an elusive reality of the bodies, revealing an often hidden, intermediate space in which opposite tensions act together instead of annihilating each other. Transition and vertigo.
Stefania Zuliani
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Mario Botta seen by Pino Musi
Rovereto e il nuovo Polo Culturale
