JAPANESE GARDEN :: TOPOGRAPHIES OF THE VOID © 2014 :: Hospital de Sant Pau
"A Japanese Garden: Topographies of the Void"
Casa Asia, Pabellón la Puríssima, Recinto Modernista del Hospital de Sant Pau, Barcelona, Spain
Curated by: Menene Gras Balaguer
Project carried out in the framework of the Spain-Japan Dual Year 2013-2014
09/07/2014 to 02/11/2014
This exhibition project consists of a unique installation created by Esther Pizarro and curated by Menene Gras Balaguer. Based on the archipelago that makes up the Japanese country, a Japanese garden has been designed to connect with the universal aesthetic values of this culture. A Japanese garden is a space that invites contemplation by imitating the nature that it tries to reproduce in miniature, but at the same time sharing aesthetic codes with calligraphy, art and tradition. All the components that form part of the Japanese garden import a symbolism and rules that inform the meaning of the arrangement of each and every one of them, as if they were the elements of a graphic script with a defined cultural identity. This project produced by Matadero Madrid and Casa Asia delimits the space of the garden on the territorial plan occupied by the country. It is a dry garden surrounded by a sea of salt, in which the eight regions have become islands, opening paths between them so that the public can move around as if inside a living organism, in the image of nature in each of its representations.
Menene Gras Balaguer
Curator
CREDITS::
Conceptualisation: Esther Pizarro
Production: Esther Pizarro Studio
Technology: Markus Schroll
Organised by: Matadero Madrid and Casa Asia
Curated by: Menene Gras Balaguer
Montage: Esther Pizarro Studio, Markus Schroll
Project carried out in the framework of the Dual Year Spain-Japan 2013-14 with the support of Matadero Madrid and Casa Asia.
ASSOCIATED CATALOGUE::
Pizarro, Esther (2014). Catálogo exposición: Un Jardín Japonés: topografías del vacío. Textos: Inmaculada López, Carlota Álvarez Basso, Menene Gras Balaguer y Esther Pizarro. Extensión: 128 páginas. Edita: Universidad de Granada, Centro de Cultura Contemporánea. ISBN: 978-84-338-5723-1, DL: GR / 2528-2014
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