We knew that Portugal will be represented at the Venice Architecture Biennale this year by Alvaro Siza , to resume (and end) a project of social housing which has already more than 30 years on the Giudecca island, and whose completion had been the way. This Monday, the Directorate General of Arts (DGArtes) announced that the Portuguese presence at the Biennale of 2017 Arts in the Italian city will remain associated with the current year, and the guest artist is José Pedro Croft (n. porto, 1957), a choice of Commissioner John Pinharanda.
the announcement was made in porto, in the bookstore ideas Circus, located in the neighborhood of Bouça, one of the flagship projects of career Siza in the fields of social housing, and that was, in some way, as an emblem of the SAAL program, developed in the country in the two years immediately following the April 25, 1974.
the Director general of Carlos Moura Arts Carvalho, author of choices and commissioner general of the Portuguese presence in the biennials of Venice, justified the chain with the advantages in saving of time, and also because “allows an innovative approach in architecture and the arts in a very current theme,” as well as allowing a more effective strategy of “planning, promotion, communication and raising support”
a strategy that has been accepted and ratified by the Minister of Culture, João Soares, who -. also present in the ideas Circus – praised ” the substantive choices “of DGArtes also made the previous time PSD-CDS Government / PP, and also” the remarkable work of the curators “: Pinharanda, in the case of the Arts, and the architects Nuno Grande and Roberto Cremascoli in the case of . architecture
in the first presentation of his project for Venice, José Pedro Croft – which in 2014 was the subject of a major exhibition in Lisbon, Immediate Objects divided between the National Cordage and Carmona Foundation and Costa – said it will develop in two phases: “a work of perennial nature”, which will be a source to be installed in Mars Square in the center urbanization that includes the two buildings Siza; and “an ephemeral intervention of monumental character,” which will be on one side of this square, and will only last month the biennial
After expressing his satisfaction for being able to “dialogue and collaborate with Siza.” – a relationship whose bridge will be in place by the Italian architect Roberto Cremascoli – the artist also mentioned the privilege to “have a year to prepare the biennial”, and working with drawings and models, which are always “very complex things to solve when it comes to outdoor sculptures “.
John Pinharanda, curator and current cultural attaché of the Embassy of Portugal in Paris, stressed the importance of the Portuguese presence in the two biennials of Venice going to take place” in a city real and with authenticity “- the Giudecca is opposite the Piazza San Marco and even has a local population of about 6,500 inhabitants, removed and freed from the hustle and bustle and the effects of tourism
. back to the architecture places
contact in recent weeks with the current social reality of the residents who live in the houses he designed in the four places that will be revisited in the Portugal Pavilion in Venice – Giudecca, Berlin and the Hague, in addition to Porto – was Alvaro Siza, who has now witness to this “rewarding experience”
He returned at the end of last week. , the Netherlands and Germany, where he completed a circuit started in February in Venice, the architect of Bouça as recalled these projects resulted from their participation in the SAAL program. And as the particular case of Bouça the district determined its choice, for example, to project the urbanization in The Hague, whose mayoral came Enta the Oporto study the implementation of the project of social housing in a degraded area of the city.
“When I was working for the Hague, half of the inhabitants [of the neighborhood in question] were immigrants and more also were Dutch; now there are 90% of immigrants, and more variety of ethnic groups: Moroccans, Syrians, Indians …; Dutch almost no “Siza said that, however, did not realize any” air gap “.
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