Fundamenta, a photographic exhibition by architect Aldo Amoretti, stages in Naples until Feb. 10, 2023 his interpretation of architecture, immersed in the context of which it is a part.
On the one hand it is involved in a congeries of heteronomous factors and relationships that mark the project from the ideational phase, and on the other it can impact the landscape.
At the heart of the exhibition is this mutual relationship, documented in a personal way with great sensitivity in Amoretti’s shots.
The selection of images was conceived not as a catalog of exempla, but as the enactment of the outcome of that “visual acoustics,” through which the author interrogated some nodal issues of architectural design.
The exhibition is thus divided into nine pairs of photographs of works by authors such as Zumthor, Kollhoff, Pawson, and Märkli, each of them called upon to express one of the nine themes identified from among what are considered to be the fundamentals of architecture.
The images of each pair are designed to enter into dialogue with each other: an invitation to listen and to personal critical reflection, urging the viewers themselves, therefore, to somehow take part in that silent conversation through images.
The exhibition investigates nine themes, on which as many authoritative exponents of contemporary architectural culture were invited to express their views: Franco Purini, Uwe Schröder, José Ignacio Linazasoro, Agostino De Rosa, Carlo Moccia, Dina Nencini, Valter Scelsi, Renato Capozzi, and Carmine Piscopo. Each of them thus was called upon to present a critical text on one of the nine themes proposed at the opening, thus sharing with the audience their own knowledge and depth of thought.
Photo Courtesy of Aldo Amoretti
