Deep memories. The Parque Cementiri Nou at Igualada by Enric Miralles and Carme Pinós

Abstract

At Igualada Enric Miralles and Carme Pinós give form to a landscape of pitiless poetry where death is evoked with solemn gravity. A trail descends between ruins and detritus along what seems like the dried bed of a river in flood as far as the final space where gaping tombs await. The fate that is in store for each of us is displayed without veils in an image worthy of Baroque theatre. The themes of the descent to the underworld, of the decomposition of the body and of the resurrection are not evoked by figurative devices but by an architecture suspended between construction and dilapidation. As in the Skogskirkogården, personal and collective memories are layered to give life to a landscape that is not simply geographical but also cultural, a landscape that more than any other represents the spirit of Catalonia as it exits forty years of dictatorship.

Keywords

• miralles-pinós
• barocco
• architetture di scavo