On Saturday 10 December 2022 we invite you to an author-curator guided tour of the exhibition MEMENTO. The creator of the works, Vinicius Libardoni, and the curator, Kuba Żary, will talk about the exhibition.
▪️ 11 a.m. - guided tour in Polish
▪️ 1 p.m. - guided tour in English
ABOUT THE EXHIBITION:
“Memento is a way of commemorating - or perhaps at times ‘repudiating’? - of icons that no longer exist or are completely unlike themselves. In a series of monochrome prints, the Brazilian-Italian artist and architect Vinicius Libardoni, who lives in Wrocław, portrays 8 post-war buildings from different Polish cities, poetically reflecting the paradox of their fate. In his oneiric paintings, the brutalist Katowice railway station, the “Emilia” furniture pavilion or the Supersam are uprooted from their surroundings, abstracted from their urban context. On the one hand, this is a disturbing study of their decomposition: lonely and abandoned, they fall apart and crumble, bursting and crumbling into the rubble that surrounds them from all sides. At the same time, however, even in this gloomy form, they never cease to impress with their fine form - a sophisticated play of geometric shapes.
The dystopian landscapes not only blur the boundaries between reality and daydream, but also between art and architecture. Libardoni talks about architectural heritage using formal tools and strategies appropriate to the field. His intricate, artful drawings are reflected on raw reinforced concrete slabs. Massive, brutal in their form, the objects on many levels, from the metaphorical to the quite tangible, become monuments to the classics of Polish modernism.
The objects presented at the exhibition are part of Vinicius Libardoni’s doctoral thesis ‘Recasting Architecture: Etched Memories, Cast in Concrete’, being prepared at the Eugeniusz Geppert Academy of Fine Arts in Wrocław - supervisor: Prof. Przemysław Tyszkiewicz.
Organisers: Wrocław Film Foundation, Museum of Architecture in Wrocław