In close up, the buildings look less like comprehensive structures and more like geometric art 📸
has held an enduring fascination with landscapes over the course of his 40-year career – and through his eyes, the category comprises not only rolling hills and photogenic horizons, but all of the tumbling down, the haphazardly erected and the quickly patched-up urban structures contemporary life necessitates.
This search has taken Guidi from Italy to France, Poland and Spain, but it has also drawn him to the work of groundbreaking architects Carlo Scarpa and Mies van der Rohe. Perhaps most fascinating of all, though, in 2003 Guidi approached five lesser-known buildings by Swiss-French architectand, capturing close-up shots of the materials and surfaces from which they each are constructed, revealed himself as a conscientious examiner of that man’s work.
The buildings themselves were diverse, Kehrer Galerie explains: ranging from “The Maison la Roche, which was built for banquier and collector Raoul La Roche both as a villa and to house his art collection,” and “The Maison Planeix,” which “originally served as a workshop for the sculptor Antonin Planeix,” through to “The Villa Savoye” which “was planned as a country retreat for the Savoye family” and “The Cité de Refuge,” which “has been used by the French Salvation Army since its...
Here, however, these five architectural projects appear less as comprehensive structures and more as geometric shapes, dividing and crossing the landscapes in which they’re situated. What’s more Guidi’s photographs, with their intimate crops and sections of flat smooth, muted colours, are extremely aesthetically pleasing: a happy example of how effortlessly architecture, photography and geography can fuse in a single body of work.
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