Based on archival research conducted at the Archivio Progetti at IUAV in Venice, the essay (and the exhibition “La linea analitica: I musei e gli allestimenti di Costantino Dardi”, Archivio Progetti, Iuav, 12.11. > 13.12.2013) is the first historical and scientific survey on the exhibition designs by Costantino Dardi, the renowned Italian architect of the 1970s and 1980s, author of the scenography for Peter Greenaway’s “The Belly of an Architect”. Across the various exhibition contexts in which he operated, Dardi nurtured a strongly critical approach to the relationship with space: he did not limit himself to merely an expressive or representative level, but rather assumed an analytical attitude. This attitude produced new and always original operations: as results of a critical and creative analysis of space, his projects often became spatial installations in themselves. Dardi’s work found its optimal expression in the relationship between the exhibition display and its context, whether the latter was a museum, an archaeological site, an urban space or a landscape. This particular sensitivity derives from his wide and updated knowledge of visual culture, which in the context of contemporary Italian architectural milieu was quite original. Although perfectly positioned within the Italian architectural culture of the ‘60s and ‘70s, Dardi nevertheless emerges as an anomalous exponent, primarily for his in-depth and articulated knowledge of the Italian and international art scenes. It was precisely contemporary art research (Flavin, Burden, Judd) that strongly influenced his analytical sensitivity as well as design.

La linea analitica: Dardi, lʼarte e lʼesposizione

Skansi, Luka
2016-01-01

Abstract

Based on archival research conducted at the Archivio Progetti at IUAV in Venice, the essay (and the exhibition “La linea analitica: I musei e gli allestimenti di Costantino Dardi”, Archivio Progetti, Iuav, 12.11. > 13.12.2013) is the first historical and scientific survey on the exhibition designs by Costantino Dardi, the renowned Italian architect of the 1970s and 1980s, author of the scenography for Peter Greenaway’s “The Belly of an Architect”. Across the various exhibition contexts in which he operated, Dardi nurtured a strongly critical approach to the relationship with space: he did not limit himself to merely an expressive or representative level, but rather assumed an analytical attitude. This attitude produced new and always original operations: as results of a critical and creative analysis of space, his projects often became spatial installations in themselves. Dardi’s work found its optimal expression in the relationship between the exhibition display and its context, whether the latter was a museum, an archaeological site, an urban space or a landscape. This particular sensitivity derives from his wide and updated knowledge of visual culture, which in the context of contemporary Italian architectural milieu was quite original. Although perfectly positioned within the Italian architectural culture of the ‘60s and ‘70s, Dardi nevertheless emerges as an anomalous exponent, primarily for his in-depth and articulated knowledge of the Italian and international art scenes. It was precisely contemporary art research (Flavin, Burden, Judd) that strongly influenced his analytical sensitivity as well as design.
2016
Costantino Dardi: forme dell’infrastruttura
978-88-7115-836-5
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