Carlo Scarpa: Brion Memorial
The Cave Photography
R. 31 de Janeiro 174
Tuesday→Saturday: 4pm–7pm
“Into the flowers that gift of life has passed.” (Paul Valery)
Carlo Scarpa’s Brion Memorial was commissioned by Onorina Brion and her son Ennio Brion in memory of her husband Giuseppe Brion as a final resting place for the family in the Northern Italian town San Vito di Altivole. The family had acquired an L-shaped piece of land adjacent to the existing cemetery of the town. Scarpa encircled the new site with an inclined wall separating it from the surrounding fields. The memorial houses a series of elements, that address different aspects of grief and related rituals: among them the propylaea, the water pavilion, the arcosolium under which Onorina and Ennio Brion are buried, the Brion family tomb, and the chapel. Carlo Scarpa is buried in the inner corner of the L-shape, adjacent to the village cemetery. The Brion Memorial is a place of meditation and reflection, offering solace, contemplation, and inspiration beyond the boundaries of faith.
Mark Durden & João Leal
Mark Durden is a writer, artist and academic. His many publications include The Routledge Companion to Photography Theory, co-edited with Jane Tormey, (Routledge 2019), Photography Today (Phaidon 2014), which has subsequently been translated into French, Spanish, Turkish and Chinese, Fifty Key Writers on Photography (Routledge 2012), which has been translated into Chinese and Farsi. Together with David Campbell and Ian Brown he works as part of the art group Common Culture. He has also curated substantial exhibitions on art and consumerism and art and comedy with Campbell: Variable Capital at Bluecoat Liverpool in 2008, and Double Act, which was launched at Bluecoat Liverpool and the MAC Belfast in 2016 and then adapted for a show in the Azores in 2017. Since 2017 Durden has worked collaboratively with João Leal in photographing modernist European architecture. He is currently Professor of Photography and Director of the European Centre for Documentary Research at the University of South Wales, UK.
João Leal is an artist and a teacher. Participates in solo and group exhibitions since 2001. His artworks use still and moving images as well as sound and they are presented in exhibition, projection and installation formats. His main interests as a practitioner are the ideas of structure (and its multiple connotations), the “proximity/distance” dichotomy and the ways of occupying the exhibition space. In 2005 won, ex-aequo, the "Pedro Miguel Frade" award, from the Portuguese Centre of Photography, with the work "Night Order”. In 2018 won the aquisition award of the XX Cerveira Biennale. PhD in Visual Arts (practice based in instalation, photography and videoart) from the University of South Wales (supervised by Mark Durden and Lisa Barnard) in connection with the European Centre for Documentary Research. Worked in São João and D.Maria II National Theatres, RTP Portuguese television, and “Casa da Música”. Full time professor in the Department of Image Arts P.Porto | ESMAD and member of the CEAU | AAI - Architecture, Art and Image Research Group and UNIMAD research unit. Since 2017, João Leal works collaboratively with Mark Durden in photographing modernist European architecture, beginning with Álvaro Siza. The website of the project is www.durden-leal.com
Anne-Catrin Schultz is a German-born architect, architectural historian, and author. She teaches architectural history and theory at the School of Architecture and Design at the Wentworth Institute of Technology in Boston in the United States.