EGA (Jul 2020)

Skiagraph and other grafic uncoverings. Inquiries for a new creative Space

  • Tomás García García,
  • Fco. Javier Montero Fernández

DOI
https://doi.org/10.4995/ega.2020.13005
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 25, no. 39
pp. 120 – 131

Abstract

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The X-rays calmed the hurtful desire experienced by many artists to probe the visible and the invisible, endowing the vision with an unsuspected depth. Those first veiled skiagraphs in the old hospital San Vicente de Paul in Chile in 18961, began the definitive discredit of the old paradigm of the positivist reality, unique and univocal, to incorporate a new substance that in the long run would be definitive in the artistic and creative development of the twentieth century: the other, its hidden face. This essay places value on X-rays, as a photographic (artistic) technique, understood as a beautiful tool for the exploration and analysis of reality hidden behind the appearance of the visible world, and as an “unknown light” applied to the architectural project reveals a suggestive world of possibilities with which to find spaces and invent places. The research analyzes the potential of this suggestive tool, contributing as a result, the personal experience maintained with Nick Veasey in Radar Studio (London, 2015). Unpublished documentation that reveals an exciting world with infinite creative possibilities. A new reality unveiled that surprises us with the discovery of new spaces for art and architecture.

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