scopionewspaper, The Idea of Álvaro Siza: The Museum Serralves by Mark Durden and João Leal
#2 December 2020 - Visual Spaces of Change

SCOPIO EDITIONS
Porto, 2020
Visual Spaces of Change
Mark Durden and João Leal
ISBN 978-989-54878-4-4
40 pages

Mark Durden and João Leal’s photography series at the Serralves Museum of Contemporary Art constitutes an aesthetic endeavour that reveals some of Siza’s most significant traits. Serralves is an architecture that affords a home to other arts, often allowing the exhibited art to be displayed in oneness with the place, as occurs, for example, with Pedro Cabrita Reis’s sculptures, which have established a strong connection with the exhibition spaces. Durden and Leal’s series creates a visual narrative that brings together Serralves’ abstraction and poetics, as well as underscoring the significant relationship that the museum creates with the natural surroundings of the park.

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