“Arquigrafias. Guido Guidi e Álvaro Siza” was the exhibition marking the reopening to the public of the Casa da Arquitectura, after the lockdown. The exhibition of photographs by the Italian Guido Guidi on works by the architect Álvaro Siza is curated by Paula Pinto and Joaquim Moreno and was on display at the Casa da Arquitectura Gallery from 17 April to 3 October 2021.
The curators selected eight projects located in Lisbon, Oporto and Matosinhos, which are represented through 97 images captured by the lens of Guido Guidi. Arquigrafias thus offers a “dialogue between the photographic work of Guido Guidi (Cesena, 1941) and the architectural work of Álvaro Siza (Matosinhos, 1933) and constitutes a singular encounter between two unique figures in their respective fields of work”.
The exhibition was born, according to the curators, in December 2014, at the time of the exhibition “Guido Guidi. Carlo Scarpa: Túmulo Brion” at the Garagem Sul of the Centro Cultural de Belém, also curated by both. At that time, Guido Guidi expressed a desire to photograph Álvaro Siza’s architecture.
” Arquigrafias. Guido Guidi e Álvaro Siza” is the first time that Guido Guidi’s proposed to photograph the work of an architect. It is also the first time that his photographs could be shown to the architect for whom they were made, having already been seen by Álvaro Siza. Paulo Catrica was invited to record on video “some of the moments that gave this exhibition meaning and allow it to be given a voice”.
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Curators
Joaquim Moreno
Joaquim Moreno (Luanda, 1973) holds a degree in Architecture from the Faculty of Architecture, University of Oporto (1998); a Masters Degree (pre-Bologna) in Architecture and Urban Culture, Barcelona School of Architecture, Polytechnic University of Catalonia (2001); Doctorate in Architecture, School of Architecture, Princeton University (2011). Independent curator since 2002, in a continuous work that includes the exhibition “Desenho Projecto de Desenho” (2002), in co-curatorship with Alberto Carneiro, dedicated to architectural design in the Portuguese XX century, the Portuguese representation at the Venice Architecture Biennale in 2008, with philosopher José Gil, the exhibition “Guido Guidi/ Carlo Scarpa: Tomba Brion” at Centro Cultural de Belém (Lisbon, 2014-15) with Paula Pinto and also the exhibition “The University is Now on Air”, at the Canadian Centre for Architecture in Montreal, dedicated to the teaching of Modern Architecture through Radio and Television that the English Open University proposed in the 1970s.
He is Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Architecture of the University of Oporto.
Paula Parente Pinto
Paula Parente Pinto (Oporto, 1971) has a degree in Plastic Arts: Sculpture, Faculty of Fine Arts of Oporto (1998); Master (pre-Bologna) in Architecture and Urban Culture, Universidad Politécnica da Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain (2004); PhD in Visual and Cultural Studies, University of Rochester, NY, USA (2016). She has worked in Historical Research and as an independent curator in numerous exhibitions from which the following can be highlighted: “Grupo Puzzle: collective painting = individual painting” at Centro de Artes e Espetáculos (Figueira da Foz, 2011); “Ângelo de Sousa: Ainda as esculturas” at Teatro Municipal da Guarda Gallery (Guarda, 2012); “Guido Guidi/Carlo Scarpa: Tomba Brion” at Centro Cultural de Belém (Lisbon, 2014-15); “Nunca fiz uma exposição de desenhos” with unpublished work by Albuquerque Mendes at Centro para os Assuntos da Arquitetura e das Artes (Guimarães, 2015-16); “Stefano Serafin: arte em estado de guerra”, an exhibition on the 100 years since the destruction of museums during the First World War, on show until June 2017 at the Centro Internacional de Arte José de Guimarães (Guimarães).