Studio Visit: Graciela Iturbide Studio
Guides: Mauricio Rocha and Gabriela Carrillo
June 2, 2016
Iturbide Studio –built by Mauricio Rocha and Gabriela Carrillo for the renowned Mexican photographer Graciela Iturbide– is a piece that above all I seek silence, synthesis, the continuous, repetitive and almost obsessive use of a single material. He strategically took advantage of its “shape” and proportions to eliminate the concrete from its structure and become almost self-supporting. A piece that seeks to be mass and emptiness, an ethereal volume that disappears with light and shadow; let it cease to be, so that the powerful atmosphere that this woman that we admire so much transmits inhabits it and makes it its own.
ABOUT STUDIO INTERLUDES: How does architectural space influence artistic production and vice-versa? This is the question to be examined by means of a series of visits to the homes and studios of leading Mexican artists. Each event literally evolves in situ, with a specific character arising from the personality of the space visited, and of the person who inhabits it. This series establishes a conceptual link between the traditional journeys made by modern architects to visit emblematic works from antiquity, and the contemporary practice of studio visits.
