The Kolektiv Gallery, in cooperation with Oris, presented the exhibition of the Portuguese architect Alvaro Siza, one of the main protagonists of the global architecture scene today.
For Siza, drawing is irreplaceable, both in his architecture, and his personal life. He uses drawings while developing ideas and thinking about architecture, but he also uses them to remember moments in life. Drawings are the fastest way of communication for Alvaro Siza. The specifics of this exhibition is that the drawings of Alvaro Siza will be accompanied by the drawings of his late wife, Maria Antonia Siza.
The series that has been on view in the Kolektiv Gallery refers to Siza’s work in the Marian sanctuary in Fatima, Portugal. The new Basilica of the Holy Trinity was built in 2007, by the project of the Greek architect Alexandros Tombazis, and Alvaro Siza has conceptualised the mural in the chapel.
The series of templates that were the basis for this monumental mural has been presented in Belgrade. Drawings that once again confirm Siza’s distinctive manner, simple, precise, well thought-out and expressive. On the other hand, the work of his wife, though stylistically similar, is in content entirely different. In her works, Maria Antónia Siza entered the spheres of imagination and grotesque.
Galerija Kolektiv, u saradnji sa časopisom Oris, predstavila je izložbu portugalskog arhitekte Alvara Size, jednog od glavnih aktera današnje globalne arhitektonske scene.
Crtež je veoma važan za Alvara Sizu, kako u njegovoj arhitekturi, tako i u privatnom životu. On koristi crteže dok razvija ideje i razmišlja o arhitekturi, dok takođe, crtežom pamti životne trenutke. Crtež je za njega najbrži način komunikacije – sa sobom i sa drugima.
Specifičnost ove izložbe je ta što su pored crteža Alvara Size bili predstavljeni i crteži njegove davno preminule supruge, umetnice Marije Antonije Size.
Ciklus radova koji je prikazan u Orisu i kasnije u galeriji Kolektiv vezan je za njegov rad na Marijanskom svetilištu u Fatimi u Portugalu. Nova crkva Presvetog Trojstva izgrađena je 2007. godine prema projektu grčkog arhitekte Aleksandrosa Tombazisa, a Siza je osmislio dizajn murala u kapeli crkve.
U Beogradu je predstavljena serija, prema kojima je izrađen taj monumentalni mural, u kojima se ponovo prepoznaje Sizin manir koji odlikuju jednostavnost, preciznost, promišljenost i ekspresivnost.S druge strane, opus njegove supruge, iako stilski srodan, u smislu sadržaja je potpuno drugačiji. Marija Antonija Siza je u svom radu zašla i u sfere imaginacije i groteske.