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Alturas de Machu Picchu: Martín Chambi – Álvaro Siza at work. Installation view, 2012
Alturas de Machu Picchu: Martín Chambi – Álvaro Siza at work. Installation view, 2012
Alturas de Machu Picchu: Martín Chambi – Álvaro Siza at work. Installation view, 2012
Alturas de Machu Picchu: Martín Chambi – Álvaro Siza at work. Installation view, 2012
Alturas de Machu Picchu: Martín Chambi – Álvaro Siza at work. Installation view, 2012
Alturas de Machu Picchu: Martín Chambi – Álvaro Siza at work. Installation view, 2012
Portuguese architect Álvaro Siza travelled to Peru in 1995 with his usual baggage: only a few changes of clothes, some books of poetry, and a single sketchbook. This was the toolkit he used to interpret the voyage and integrate it into his architecture. More than half a century earlier, Peruvian photographer Martín Chambi had taken his famous series of portraits of the archaeological site at Machu Picchu. While his project was more political, acting as a re-appropriation of the site by its locals, the tools of Chambi and Siza are the same: the production of images to define a reality.
Alturas de Machu Picchu combines a loan of material from Siza’s archive with Chambi’s photos in the CCA collection. The exhibition presents the work of sketching and its relevance to architectural practice, with Siza’s 1977 housing development in Évora, Portugal, as a case study.
Curator: Fabrizio Gallanti, CCA.
Graphic design: Atelier Pastille Rose, Montreal.
Gallery Tour by Fabrizio Gallanti (in French)
Tour by curator Fabrizio Gallanti (in French)
Selected objects
Siza sketching in Machu Picchu, 1995. © Andreia Soutinho
Martín Chambi. Partial view of the Ñusta Palace, the Torreón, unidentified buildings and retaining walls with Intihuatana hill in the background, Machu Picchu, Peru. 1927. Gelatin silver print, 17.6 x 23.5 cm. CCA Collection. PH1994:0249 © Archivo Fotografico Martín Chambi
Álvaro Siza. Sketch from notebook #399, Machu Picchu, Peru. 1995. Ink on paper, 29.7 x 21 cm. © Álvaro Siza, Architect
Álvaro Siza. Sketch from notebook #399, Machu Picchu, Peru. 1995. Ink on paper, 29.7 x 21 cm. © Álvaro Siza, Architect
Álvaro Siza. Sketch from notebook #399, Machu Picchu, Peru. 1995. Ink on paper, 29.7 x 21 cm. © Álvaro Siza, Architect
Álvaro Siza. Sketch from notebook #399, Machu Picchu, Peru. 1995. Ink on paper, 29.7 x 21 cm. © Álvaro Siza, Architect
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