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Housing the abstract
art of Gustavo Torner, one of the founders of the Abstract
Art Museum in Cuenca -- an institution housed in its very
own hanging
house -- the architecture is an equally abstract intervention
within the richly-articulated Gothic wrapper. While the white
walls at times appear too simple and too much of a contrast
with the church, the framing of his artwork adds another layer
of complexity to the spatial quality of the installation.
Rather than merely hanging pieces on a wall or sitting sculptures
on the floor, Paredes Pedrosa sets up axial views through
openings that make the artwork interact with the church; in
the case of the image at left the architect sets one of Torner's
pieces on axis with the chapel beyond. |
