Las Torres de la Templanza. Santiago de Compostela. (en memoria de John Hejduk). Torres de Hejduk. Cidade da Cultura , Galicia,; Santiago de Compostela. 2011
THE TEMPERANCE TOWERS
Santiago de Compostela. 2011
In Memory of John Hejduk
In 2000, when construction of the Cidade da Cultura de Galicia on Monte Gaias began, John Hejduk, a friend of Peter Eisenman and one of the New York Five, passed away. The ill-fated architect designed two botanic towers for Belvís Park in Santiago de Compostela in 1992, which were never built. Later, Eisenman proposed to include it in the Cidade and built Hejduk’s project in memory of its original author. The towers, planned as a reinterpretation of the two Romanesque towers of the Santiago de Compostela Cathedral, were now transposed into Eisenman’s urban design as a commemorative monument. The intervention of Pamen Pereira, The Temperance Towers, aims to recuperate the use for which Hejduk had originally conceived them.
(Text published in the catalog of the exhibition Inside. I Encontro de
Artistas Novos, organized by the Fundaci.n Cidade da Cultura de Galicia
from December 16, 2011 to January 16, 2012).
The Temperance Towers, In Memory of John Hejduk. Hejduk Towers,
Cidade da Cultura Galicia, Santiago de Compostela (2011).
Card of the Temperance, Tarot of Marseille
Exhibition curated by Rafael Doctor
Photography: Manuel Vicente
Las Torres de la Templanza. Santiago de Compostela. (en memoria de John Hejduk). Torres de Hejduk. Cidade da Cultura , Galicia,; Santiago de Compostela. 2011
Planos para la intervención, en las torres, colaboración de Antonio San Martín, aSZ arquitectos
La Carta de la Templanza. Tarot de Marsella.
Instalación de las aérea, Ttorres de la templanza.
Vista del interior
Montaje del jardín flotante jardín volador.
Detalle de Tillandsia Aeranthos o clavel del aire.
Instalación de Las Torres de la Templanza. El campanario, Instalación en el interior de la torre de piedra
Finally we have built an aerial greenhouse, a kind of vertical garden … with the “plants of the air”
The wind of the spirit blew very hard and almost carried me away. We got into the soul of the Torres and when working with subtle energies the artist does not know who is pulling the strings, and there are a lot. And then all the ghosts woke up … and the cleaning began. Now the Torres breathe, with systole and diastole, they have a strong heart that grows, blooms in spring and also sounds …
We gave his time two strong wings and revived his sacred space with serene geometry.
Pamen Pereira
Montaje con Antonio SanMartin. Planos del jardín volador aSZ arquitectos, y Dariel Camejo y Pamen Pereira
Grupo de colaboradoras preparando y elaborando las tillandsias.