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Symbolic Public Form & the Library Art Gallery of Ontario |
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THE GARDEN OF LOST FOOTSTEPS | EISENMAN ARCHITECTS Castelvecchio Exhibition | Verona, Italy | February 2004 - January 2005 Our exhibition is a project located as a didactic work in the garden and a fragmentary work on the interior. It begins from the striated concrete floors that Scarpa placed in the five interior exhibition rooms. These five squares are placed in the garden as five ‘excavated’ pads that can be thought to have existed in the medieval castle keep, well before there was any Scarpa or Eisenman intervention. The pads are located on an axis parallel to the internal sequence of rooms. We then introduced a second axis, the Eisenman axis, which moves diagonally across the garden, intersecting with and crossing over Scarpa’s excavated pads. This second axis is keyed off the rotated room at the end of the interior sequence of spaces. This in turn suggests that the skewed axis preexisted and thus keyed the located of Scarpa’s diagonal bridge, rather than vice versa. In fact, however, it is the Eisenman axis that is the act of excavation, which constitutes the second theme of the garden project: the progressive revelation of the concrete pads as one moves from the bridge and towards the entry of the museum. In this act of “time regained”, Scarpa’s pads are cracked open to reveal an amalgam of Eisenman Projects. The capacity of a moment in the present to recall an event in the past, the idea of simultaneous time as a simultaneous place, that is, as a history in presence, is the animating idea for our project |
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