Architecture + Nature (2011)

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People:

Gianni Pettena (archive creator)
Gianni Pettena (artist)

Title:

Architecture + Nature (2011)

Date:

2011-2017

Level of archival description:
Project

Extent and medium:

5 digital files (715 MB)
6 photographs
1 drawing

Scope and content:
The project series documents the filmed performance "Architecture + Nature" produced by Pettena in 2011. The performance consists of the word "architecture" written in the sand slowly being erased by the movement of the waves. "The sea breaks slowly on the sandy beach... On it architecture stays. And the sea and its waves break with slow, constant, inexorable movements, like a bewitching, continual, eternal melody... And gradually architecture is dematerialized [...]." [1]

The project series contains a video of the performance, a drawing, and six film stills.

Source:
[1] Gianni Pettena website, https://www.giannipettena.it/italiano/opere-1/ff-architecture-nature-2011-1/ (last accessed 23 January 2020)

Reference number:

AP207.S1.2011.PR02

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

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