The Space of Memory | 2008

 

The Brion tomb in San Vito d'Altivole

and the Gipsoteca Canoviana in Possagno,

two extraordinary pieces of evidence of Carlo Scarpa's work:

evocative spaces wich generate tensions, expectations, meditations.

 

From these questions rises the desire

to favour the ambiguity of space:

inside and outside,

macroscopic and microscopic,

light and shade.

 

Not to cross the threshold,

to wait for the change of light

in order to follow its movement

upon materials and shapes that it covers.

 

In the silence, without violence.  

 

Originally published in the March 2008 issue 12 of Finnegans