Arquitectura esCultura | Oscar Gonzalez Moix

The interest in rescuing the relation between architecture and culture, and confuse them, in the best sense of the word, with sculpture, represents a concern in the project process and work of the architect Oscar Gonzalez Moix. Thus, we begin on the slight knowledge that all architectural experience is multisensorial, as it embraces qualities of matter and non-matter, closed space and open space, accurate and ambiguous space, human scale or monumental, the varied temperatures and textures, of sounds and silence. Processes that bring light, mass and their respective shadows staged as building materials of the plane and space and bring them closer to the category of the tangible, introducing them to the sculptural terrain, embracing the place in direct communion with its corresponding site. From this, arises a material austerity that orchestrates an implicit counterpoint between the light and the subtle peculiarities of the monumental mass that serves as support and simile of the Andean buttress in communion with eleven mock up models cast in concrete, all built, with and to be confused in the landscape. 

The exhibition is a playful proposal that tries to share a design process, a materialized binnacle (not drawn) that shapes the mass and the light, reactivating the right of enjoyment of senses; an expansive and expressive search that favors the alliance, creation, engineering, science, art, culture and the media to provide new and unexpected transversality. Through a series mock ups and black and white photographs that reveal approximations to space, textures and details; this process is followed, culminating in two recently constructed cultural public works (architecture/ culture). Both works are the result of a paradoxical dialogue between the timelessness of the container object and the evanescence that generates light and changing shadow over the landscape, mass, andeneria and geometry.