Architecture, silence and lightLouis Kahn in the Photographs by Roberto Schezen
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MAXXI’s Collection of Art and Architecture represents the founding element of the museum and defines its identity. Since October 2015, it has been on display with different arrangements of works.
MAXXI Architettura archive centre
curated by Simona Antonacci and Elena Tinacci
the exhibition’s closing has been extended to Sunday 21 February 2021
A focus show on the architecture of Louis Kahn through the photographs of Roberto Schezen.
On display, the diverse materials making up the Schezen Fond – from this year part of the museum’s Photography Collections: from the photographer’s own silver gelatin prints to the large format negatives and through to the invaluable colour slides, together with large-format photographs from the original negatives.
Schezen’s images lead us on a path that from silence moves towards the light, traversing themes dear to Louis Kahn such as order, form, wonder and silence.
The more classical photographs of architecture, which devote attention to the changing luminescent qualities of space and Kahn’s rigorous design research through his best-known works, are joined by more “daring” visions and alienating details in which Schezen demonstrated an authorial interpretation of the themes of light, shadow and form, paradigms shared by architecture and photography.
header: Roberto Schezen, Louis Kahn, Kimbell Art Museum. Forth Worth, Texas, (1966-72), 2001 ca