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Contemporary Art Space In The Former Convent Of Madre De Dios

CONTEMPORARY ART SPACE IN THE FORMER CONVENT OF MADRE DE DIOS

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Contemporary Art Space In The Former Convent Of Madre De Dios
© Fernando Alda

ARCHITECTS
Sol89

AUTHOR ARCHITECTS
María González, Juanjo López De La Cruz

ARCHITECTURE STUDENTS
Andrés Pino, George Smudge

BUILDING COMPANY
Cotracom

INSTALLATIONS
Alejandro Cabanas

PROMOTER
Centro De Iniciativas Culturales De La Universidad De Sevilla

PHOTOGRAPHS
Fernando Alda

AREA
830 m²

YEAR
2014

LOCATION
Spain

CATEGORY
Museum

Contemporary Art Space In The Former Convent Of Madre De Dios
© Fernando Alda

Text description provided by architect.

The intervention interprets the building where is inserted, an old convent, as a context in constant transformation over time.The project arises from a reflection on the creative process in contemporary art, its unpredictable condition and the current dissolution of limits between the space of production and exhibition.

We can recognize that much of contemporary art expression understands the architectural space as a matter of work (we remember Shibboleth by Doris Salcedo breaking the floor of the Tate Modern in London in 2007, High Plane V by Katterin Sigurdardottir occupying the false ceiling of the PS1 in New York or Esto no es un graffiti where artists demolished some facings of walls in the same place of our project).

Contemporary Art Space In The Former Convent Of Madre De Dios
© Fernando Alda
Contemporary Art Space In The Former Convent Of Madre De Dios
© Fernando Alda

We think the contemporary exhibition space shouldn’t be projected like a static room in time but like a neverending space in ellipsis, waiting for each exhibition come for completing it. The intervention is projected like a variable and reversible space.

The walls and ceiling will be covered by slats of wood, the separation between them will allow seeing the original brick walls, showing the textures of the bricks and the wounds caused by centuries that we have discovered in this first phase, that narrate time builds too as in Yourcenar’s quote.

Contemporary Art Space In The Former Convent Of Madre De Dios
© Fernando Alda
Contemporary Art Space In The Former Convent Of Madre De Dios
© Fernando Alda

At the same time, this wooden structure overlapped to the ancient walls will allow the access to all installations in any point of space.

Our intervention will act as an initial installation in the space rather than an architectural construction.

Contemporary Art Space In The Former Convent Of Madre De Dios
© Fernando Alda
Contemporary Art Space In The Former Convent Of Madre De Dios
© Fernando Alda

A temporary display related to the existing volume that enables the development of future exhibitions and could be disassembled like one of these, revealing what is truly valuable in this old building in a patrimonial sense is the matter, space and light rather than styles or decorations.


Contemporary Art Space In The Former Convent Of Madre De Dios
© Fernando Alda
Contemporary Art Space In The Former Convent Of Madre De Dios
© Fernando Alda


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