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30.09.07 – 20.01.08
PANCHO GUEDES
An alternative Modernist
Curated by Pedro Gadanho.
"I claim for architects the rights and liberties that painters and poets have held for so long" - Pancho Guedes
S AM will be host to the first major exhibition on Pancho Guedes, the portuguese Architect and eclectic modernist. The exhibition will open In September 2007 in conjunction with - and as a response to - the large scale retrospective on Corbusier at the vitra design museum.
Living and working for most of his life in Mozambique, Pancho Guedes absorbed the influences of African culture and developed an extraordinary range of styles in a manner that confounds conventional preconceptions on the nature of architectural production.
Accompanying Events:
10/12/2007, 19:15
‘Café Africa’: Nostalgia - Memories and Histories of Colonial Maputo (Lourenço Marques)
A Panel discussion with a.o. Prof. Patrick Harries, Historisches Seminar, Universität Basel and Elsa Fuchs-de Melo
In Cooperation with the Centre for African Studies, University of Basel.
18/01/2008
Museumsnight
6:30 - 7:30 pm, S AM
‘Smiling Lions, Dragons, and Other Revolutions’
Kids- program (Age 7-11, maximum 15 children)
8:00 - 9:00 pm, S AM Hall 4
Lecture: ‘Angelico Kleeziano and other Antecedents’ by Pancho Guedes
9:15 - 10:00 pm, S AM Hall 2
Concert : South African Jazz - Paul Hanmer (Johannesburg) piano solo
Paul Hanmer is one of the most prolific musicians of the South African Jazz scene. His sound, which is based on process and reminiscent of Keith Jarret, is built on cyclic repetition as well as constant changes in texture.
10:00 - 11:00 pm, S AM Hall 4
Café Africa - Pancho Guedes and his legacy
Public discussion with Pancho Guedes, Lewis Levin (Johannesburg), Hugh Fraser (Johannesburg), Prof. Patrick Harries (Universität Basel)
11:00 - 11:30 pm, S AM Hall 2
Concert : South African Jazz - Paul Hanmer (Johannesburg) piano solo
6:00 pm - 02:00 am, OPEN BAR in the FOYER
in cooperation with the Kunsthalle Basel
The event has been realised in cooperation with Centre for African Studies, University of Basel, and it was made possible with the generous support of:
Stiftung P. Schlettwein Publishing
Swiss Arts Council pro helvetia
30.09.07 – 20.01.08
PANCHO GUEDES
An alternative Modernist
Curated by Pedro Gadanho.
"I claim for architects the rights and liberties that painters and poets have held for so long" - Pancho Guedes
S AM will be host to the first major exhibition on Pancho Guedes, the portuguese Architect and eclectic modernist. The exhibition will open In September 2007 in conjunction with - and as a response to - the large scale retrospective on Corbusier at the vitra design museum.
Living and working for most of his life in Mozambique, Pancho Guedes absorbed the influences of African culture and developed an extraordinary range of styles in a manner that confounds conventional preconceptions on the nature of architectural production.
Accompanying Events:
10/12/2007, 19:15
‘Café Africa’: Nostalgia - Memories and Histories of Colonial Maputo (Lourenço Marques)
A Panel discussion with a.o. Prof. Patrick Harries, Historisches Seminar, Universität Basel and Elsa Fuchs-de Melo
In Cooperation with the Centre for African Studies, University of Basel.
18/01/2008
Museumsnight
6:30 - 7:30 pm, S AM
‘Smiling Lions, Dragons, and Other Revolutions’
Kids- program (Age 7-11, maximum 15 children)
8:00 - 9:00 pm, S AM Hall 4
Lecture: ‘Angelico Kleeziano and other Antecedents’ by Pancho Guedes
9:15 - 10:00 pm, S AM Hall 2
Concert : South African Jazz - Paul Hanmer (Johannesburg) piano solo
Paul Hanmer is one of the most prolific musicians of the South African Jazz scene. His sound, which is based on process and reminiscent of Keith Jarret, is built on cyclic repetition as well as constant changes in texture.
10:00 - 11:00 pm, S AM Hall 4
Café Africa - Pancho Guedes and his legacy
Public discussion with Pancho Guedes, Lewis Levin (Johannesburg), Hugh Fraser (Johannesburg), Prof. Patrick Harries (Universität Basel)
11:00 - 11:30 pm, S AM Hall 2
Concert : South African Jazz - Paul Hanmer (Johannesburg) piano solo
6:00 pm - 02:00 am, OPEN BAR in the FOYER
in cooperation with the Kunsthalle Basel
The event has been realised in cooperation with Centre for African Studies, University of Basel, and it was made possible with the generous support of:
Stiftung P. Schlettwein Publishing
Swiss Arts Council pro helvetia
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Feature Sf1 - Kulturplatz >>
Installation views >>
His wide range of styles and his painting, sculpture, and built works meld into a world that combines the experimental freedom of the amateur, with the creative wealth of the specialist; an architect who realised that at the heart of the true modernist lies an enduring openness to a myriad of cultural influences.
"With work drawn from Pancho Guedes' previously unpublished archives, the exhibition can reveal the prolific output of an architect who, working in one of the most cosmopolitan contexts in Africa in the 1950s, anticipated various trends and ways of thinking that are still to be found today in the international context." - Pedro Gadanho
Order the publication >>
Feature Sf1 - Kulturplatz >>
Installation views >>
His wide range of styles and his painting, sculpture, and built works meld into a world that combines the experimental freedom of the amateur, with the creative wealth of the specialist; an architect who realised that at the heart of the true modernist lies an enduring openness to a myriad of cultural influences.
"With work drawn from Pancho Guedes' previously unpublished archives, the exhibition can reveal the prolific output of an architect who, working in one of the most cosmopolitan contexts in Africa in the 1950s, anticipated various trends and ways of thinking that are still to be found today in the international context." - Pedro Gadanho