Hubert Damisch has argued that photography and film revealed to us that \u201carchitecture cannot be considered only as an art of space: room has to be made in its practice as well as its concepts, for time and movement.\u201d Photography and cinematography are thus seen to disrupt Hegel\u2019s polarised distinction between the arts of space (architecture, sculpture and painting) and the arts of time (music and poetry). For Hegel, architecture was the most incomplete art because, as Damisch notes, \u201cit is unable to adequately express the spiritual through the use of materials concerned mostly with obeying the laws of gravity\u201d, while music \u201cis thought to be the \u2018romantic\u2019 art par excellence, because it deals with a material as insubstantial as sound.\u201d Introducing Friedrich Schelling\u2019s famous metaphor that architecture is nothing \u201cbut frozen music\u201d, Damisch wonders whether we are then to define music as \u201cdefrosted architecture\u201d and goes on to link this notion to the ways in which film and photography can reveal the relations between architecture and \u201cthe fabric of time, its texture, and by the same token, its relation to space.\u201d<\/p>\n\n
Damisch was writing in response to Jaqueline Salmon\u2019s black and white photographs of Robert Mallet-Stevens\u2019 Villa Noailles at Hy\u00e8res. We have adapted his idea of \u2018defrosted architecture\u2019, for our photographs made in response to the formal qualities of \u00c1lvaro Siza\u2019s and Eduardo Souto de Moura\u2019s International Sculptural Museum (MIEC) and their rehabilitation of the Municipal Museum Abade Pedrosa (MMAP) in Santo Tirso, Portugal. Our series of photographs deliberately uses colour inversion as a strategy to further accent the remarkably inventive, playful formal qualities inherent in their architecture. Colour inversion draws out intrinsic elements of photography, pulls it away from the real. But at the same time also helps make visible new elements of the architecture it responds to. Brings us closer to the sensory qualities of its material forms. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":9657,"template":"","categoria-do-programa":[117],"class_list":["post-9649","exposicoes","type-exposicoes","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","categoria-do-programa-exhibitions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/miec.cm-stirso.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/exposicoes\/9649","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/miec.cm-stirso.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/exposicoes"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/miec.cm-stirso.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/exposicoes"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/miec.cm-stirso.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/exposicoes\/9649\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9652,"href":"https:\/\/miec.cm-stirso.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/exposicoes\/9649\/revisions\/9652"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miec.cm-stirso.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9657"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/miec.cm-stirso.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"categoria-do-programa","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miec.cm-stirso.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categoria-do-programa?post=9649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}