exhibition
18 December 2019 > 21 February 2021

Architecture, silence and lightLouis Kahn in the Photographs by Roberto Schezen

MAXXI Architettura archive centre
curated by Simona Antonacci and Elena Tinacci
the exhibition’s closing has been extended to Sunday 21 February 2021

opening hours

Monday closed
Tuesday to Sunday 11 am – 7 pm

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A focus show on the architecture of Louis Kahn through the photographs of Roberto Schezen.

On display, the diverse materials making up the Schezen Fond – from this year part of the museum’s Photography Collections: from the photographer’s own silver gelatin prints to the large format negatives and through to the invaluable colour slides, together with large-format photographs from the original negatives.

Schezen’s images lead us on a path that from silence moves towards the light, traversing themes dear to Louis Kahn such as order, form, wonder and silence.
The more classical photographs of architecture, which devote attention to the changing luminescent qualities of space and Kahn’s rigorous design research through his best-known works, are joined by more “daring” visions and alienating details in which Schezen demonstrated an authorial interpretation of the themes of light, shadow and form, paradigms shared by architecture and photography.

header: Roberto Schezen, Louis Kahn, Kimbell Art Museum. Forth Worth, Texas, (1966-72), 2001 ca


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