PELAYO ORTEGA AND LIGHT, ARCHITECTURE AS A CANVAS
THE EXPERIMENTAL WORKSHOP REVOLVES AROUND ARCHITECTURE, LIGHT, PELAYO ORTEGA AND THE REVILLAGIGEDO PALACE
The Experimental Workshop revolves around Architecture, light, Pelayo Ortega and the Revillagigedo Palace, in an almost contractual interpretation exercise in terms of history and the architectural form, committed to contemporaneity and open to a concept of the past that is revealed in the present.
The Foundation, loyal to its objectives, saw the OPPORTUNITY to unite the creation and dissemination of art with training in one single project, by awarding a scholarship to four young and deserving students from the European Design Institute (EDI) of Madrid (María Grande, Enrique A. Garde, Roberto Collado and José Luis García), under the supervision of Carlos Brenes, coordinator at the EDI of Madrid, and under the direction of Tomás Peña, a.k.a SPAUN256, one of the most influential Spanish designers of recent years.
The Experimental Workshop is a means of dialogue between Pelayo Ortega and the Architecture of the Revillagigedo Palace, with the aim of extracting the perceptions and sensations from the painter’s soul. In turn, Pelayo Ortega’s work is interpreted under a narrative, dynamic and evocative force by these four young students, based on the creative strength and intensity of their educational field.
The dynamism of the images seeks to catch the observer’s eye in an effort to invade their heart with sensations, colour, light and emotion. The final work, projected on a real scale on the main façade of the Revillagigedo Palace at night, displays a new and evocative image of a building that is recognisable in our collective subconscious. It is accompanied by a corporeal light, as never seen before, and a musical work that uncovers fleeting landscapes and imaginary maps, unprecedented lessons of the architecture of an emblematic building, that were hidden to our diurnal eyes.
Thus, in full possession of colour, the stone façade converts the sensation of weight into weightlessness, removing the echo of silence and darkness. As the great architect Louis Kahn said: “Light is the giver of all presences, without it there is only darkness”.
