Already Seen Portable Landscape (1973)

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• Fonds: Gianni Pettena fonds, 1960-2019
•    Series: Works, 1966-2018
•      Project: Already Seen Portable Landscape (1973), 1973-2015

People

• Gianni Pettena (archive creator)
• Gianni Pettena (artist)

Title

Already Seen Portable Landscape (1973)

Dates of creation

1973-2015

Level of archival description

Project

Extent and Medium

• 14 digital files (71 MB)
• 1 photograph

Scope and Content

The project series documents "Already Seen Portable Landscape", a performance imagined by Pettena as an aftermath of the "About Non-conscious Architecture" series of photographs. "Once the experience of critical interpretation and documentation of “non-conscious” architecture was concluded, the “already seen” landscapes were kept in a suitcase, in the form of photographs, as baggage that served as a reminder, above all for the person who had had that experience, of the story of a particular moment of readiness to look at physical space in an unconventional way." [1]

The project series contains a photograph montage of the pages of the photo album showing the photographs of the project "Non-conscious Architecture" (1972) and a photograph of Pettena with the suitcase containing the album.

Source:

[1] Gianni Pettena website, https://www.giannipettena.it/italiano/opere-1/perf-already-seen-1973-1/ (last accessed 12 November 2019).

Reference Number

AP207.S1.1973.PR01

Arrangement

Material in this project series was kept in its original order when it was first processed upon its arrival at CCA.

Location

Italy

Language of material

English, Italian

Related units of description

• For materials related to the photograph series "About Non-conscious Archirecture", see AP207.S1.1972.PR05 About Non-conscious Architecture (1972-1973).

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  • Reference Number: AP207.S1.1973.PR01.001
  • Title: Montage of photographs of the "non conscious" architecture's photo album, Already Seen Portable Landscape
  • Dates of creation: 1973
  • Form: photographs
  • Catalogued items within this file 1

  People:

  • Gianni Pettena (archive creator)
  • Gianni Pettena (artist)

  Quantity / Object type:

  1 File

  Extent and Medium:

  • 1 photograph

  Dimensions:

  sheet: 42.5 x 30.5 cm

  Credit line:

  Gianni Pettena fonds
  Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
  Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal;
  Don de Gianni Pettena/
  Gift of Gianni Pettena
  

  Folder Number:

  207-001-015

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    • ARCH287090
    • Montage of photographs of the "non conscious" architecture's photo album, Already Seen Portable Landscape
    • Form: drawings
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  • Reference Number: AP207.S1.1973.PR01.002
  • Title: Photographs of the “non conscious” architecture’s photo album and a project description, Already Seen Portable Landscape
  • Dates of creation: 2001 - 2015
  • Form: born digital, photographs
  • Catalogued items within this file 0

  People:

  • Gianni Pettena (archive creator)

  Description:

  Most common file formats: JPEG File Interchange Format, Raw JPEG Stream, Adobe Photoshop, Microsoft Word for Windows

  Quantity / Object type:

  1 File

  Extent and Medium:

  • 14 digital files (71 MB)

  Conditions governing access:

  • Digital material can only be accessed on-site. Please contact Reference at ref@cca.qc.ca for more information. Access by appointment only.

  Credit line:

  Gianni Pettena fonds
  Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
  Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal;
  Don de Gianni Pettena/
  Gift of Gianni Pettena