Marcel Giró
Photography
Architecture. 1950-1970
Marcel Giró photographs on architecture around the fifties are formal projectiles, intense essences of the modern movement. If you look at them carefully, one by one, you can observe how the strokes of straight or curved lines and light, as a great drawing maker, offer a hollow of great abstraction and plasticity. They are fresh photographs, explosive, absolute, disturbing, full of life and modern.
When you visit the first works of Brazilian architect Niemeyer -House das Canoas (1951) in Rio de Janeiro, Ibirapuera set (1951) and Copan building (1950) in Sao Paulo and see the plastic freedom of its architecture with columns of "v" and "w" shapes, arches and domes, curved lines, wavy patterns and sinuous forms, you can understand the relationship between architecture and photographs of Marcel Giró. Contemporary photographs also with the magnificent landscape exercises of Burle Marx with a very explicit rational and organic plasticity.
The fifties are a particularly bright period for all the arts in Brazil with a radicalization of modern and organic language. The modern vanguard binds all arts closely integrating sculpture, painting, landscaping, architecture and photography. Architecture and photography of this period form a deep an indissoluble unit. As evidenced by the work of Marcel Giró, the photographic image gives substance to the real architectural object and it remains in full force retainig all its creative force.
Manel Brullet i Tenas
Architect
