2016 JUGADOR COMO PELOTA, PELOTA COMO CANCHA
Installation views, Jugador como pelota, pelota como cancha [The Player as Ball, The Ball as Field]
Exhibition about Torneos by Manuel Casanueva, organized by Felipe Mujica
Despina | Largo das Artes, Rio de Janeiro
May 25 – June 24, 2016
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Los Torneos is the name of a series of “games” created and developed by architect and professor Manuel Casanueva, alongside a group of colleagues and students of the Catholic University of Valparaiso School of Architecture (Chile) between 1974 and 1992. Designed as a playful and collective exercise, its structure (space, equipment, rules, and artifacts) sought to generate different situations of body and spatial interaction, with emphasis on chance and improvisation. The exhibition that opens at Despina | Largo das Artes gathers documentation (photos and videos) of selected torneos as well as pictures of Casanueva study books. Both images and documentation are displayed for the first time in Brazil.
During the opening event, a re-edition of the publication “Jugador como pelota, pelota como cancha”, edited and illustrated by Felipe Mujica, will be available for sale. Printed in risograph with a silk cover, this is the third edition of a total of 100 copies, bringing together images and text descriptions of each torneo (written by Manuel Casanueva – in Spanish and English).
This exhibition was made possible thanks to the support of:
Despina | Largo das Artes, Marcio Botner, Pablo León de la Barra, Bernardo José de Souza, Archivo Historico José Vial Armstrong, School of Architecture and Design, Catholic University of Valparaiso, DIRAC, Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Government of Chile), Ximena Iommi, Olivia Casanueva, Sylvia Arriagada, and Esmeralda Rodriguez.
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