Alejandro
Madrid, 2011
Exhibition design and construction at the Canal Isabel II space.
Diseño expositivo y concepto de la exposición de Alejandro Magno para el Canal de Isabel II.
Authors: Langarita-Navarro arquitectos, Víctor Navarro, María Langarita.
Team: Juan Palencia, Ana Rosales, Roberto González. Coordination: EMPTY.
Photographs: Luis Díaz Díaz.
The Arte Canal Exhibition Center, located in an old underground water deposit, hosted an itinerant temporary exhibition on the figure of Alexander the Great. The exhibition gathered 330 pieces from 40 museums that illustrated the figure of Alejandro Conquistador through the material remains of a 10,000 km journey. It was about creating an installation where the experience could add other readings to the unequal value of the pieces.
Alejandro Magno is an exercise in museographic design understood as a set based on two elements: an intricate route and an ungraspable space. The elevated, vibrant, lapis-lazuli, elusive, light and treasured path transforms the advance of the steps into drum beats; the confused, distant, sonorous, infinite, diffuse, misty space and dotted with ethereal images is the atmosphere that surrounds each finding, making the reading of the object go from being a piece to a treasure. A couple of elements defend the analogy of travel as a theme and the experience of discovery as an argument.
El Centro de Exposiciones Arte Canal, situado en un
antiguo depósito de aguas subterráneo, acogió una exposición temporal
itinerante sobre la figura de Alejandro Magno. La exposición reunía 330 piezas
procedentes de 40 museos que ilustraban la figura del Alejandro conquistador a
través de los restos materiales de un viaje de 10.000 km. Se trataba de crear
una instalación donde la experiencia pudiera añadir otras lecturas al valor
desigual de las piezas.
Team: Juan Palencia, Ana Rosales, Roberto González. Coordination: EMPTY.
Photographs: Luis Díaz Díaz.
The Arte Canal Exhibition Center, located in an old underground water deposit, hosted an itinerant temporary exhibition on the figure of Alexander the Great. The exhibition gathered 330 pieces from 40 museums that illustrated the figure of Alejandro Conquistador through the material remains of a 10,000 km journey. It was about creating an installation where the experience could add other readings to the unequal value of the pieces.
Alejandro Magno is an exercise in museographic design understood as a set based on two elements: an intricate route and an ungraspable space. The elevated, vibrant, lapis-lazuli, elusive, light and treasured path transforms the advance of the steps into drum beats; the confused, distant, sonorous, infinite, diffuse, misty space and dotted with ethereal images is the atmosphere that surrounds each finding, making the reading of the object go from being a piece to a treasure. A couple of elements defend the analogy of travel as a theme and the experience of discovery as an argument.