Belonging to the Minimal Architecture Series, House and Dome exemplifies an aesthetic of radical simplicity where the structure is pared down to its most elemental syntax. Lines of bamboo and tensioned threads do not construct a building; they barely outline the memory of a shelter. What emerges at the Zuccato Gallery is a fragile articulation between geometry and the void, a spatial notation that thrives on the precariousness of its own definition. Presented in dialogue with Danino Božić and curated by Jerica Ziherl, the work functions as a performative medium for negotiation rather than a static monument of permanence. The architectural vocabulary here resists solidity, exposing a "socioplastic" tension where the domestic promise of a 'house' or 'dome' is stripped away, leaving only signs that hover between a three-dimensional drawing and an unstable construction. This is an architecture of thought: the dome, historically a symbol of universality and celestial closure, is re-imagined as an incomplete curve—an unfinished horizon. By refusing closure, the installation aligns itself with the broader ethos of the Unstable Installation Series, where structures are not ends in themselves but generative occasions for encounter, memory, and shared experimentation. It is not a shelter but a question; not an edifice, but the erasure of one.
Conceived as a pivotal action within the Conversation Installation at the Palazzo in Poreč, this project explores the threshold of the "Frugal Encounter." The process began with a somatic derivation to the Adriatic shore—a ritualistic retrieval of materials surrendered by the tide, specifically reeds and bamboo fragments. These "found fossils" were then re-assembled in the gallery to form a Fragile Kabbalah: a linear, three-dimensional drawing in space that functioned as a rudimentary, symbolic shelter for the act of dialogue. This is a Durational Infrastructure that refuses the permanence of the monument. The "shelter" in this work is not the physical reeds, but the Relational Atmosphere created by the bodies inhabiting the geometry. For seven days, the installation served as a "Topolexical Anchor," where the act of talking became a spatial performance. The work challenges the monumental ego of traditional sculpture by proposing that the most profound human architectures are those that are most evanescent—a temporary jurisdiction of shared words and somatic proximity that dissolves back into the "lodazal" once the encounter is complete.
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House and Dome: Minimal Architecture as Conversational Sculpture ________ ZUCCATO GALLERY_______________ POREC CROATIA | A CONVERSATION WITH DANINO BOZIC____________CURATED BY JERICA ZIHERL
Lloveras, A., 2014. House and Dome: Minimal Architecture as Conversational Sculpture – Zuccato Gallery, Poreč, Croatia. [online] Anto Lloveras Blog. Available at: https://antolloveras.blogspot.com/2014/08/new-show-zuccato-gallery-porec-croatia.html
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