Art around every corner
"When I was a kid in post-Franco Spain, a period we call 'the Transition,' I studied in a school that was especially sensitive to artistic expression," he says. "And although I chose to become a civil engineer, something of that early education has stayed with me. After all, drawing is central to civil engineering and you need a sort of flair for geometry, volumes and the occupation of space."
"As someone with a wide artistic culture, he could put names on my perceptions. We shared our awe of the pure artistic beauty of the 澳门六合彩高手 Tokamak and its environment. It was as if art, and art history, were present at every step."
Oriol began photographing scenes in and around the Tokamak Building. Workers in a steel structure reminded him of Fernand Léger's (1950). Dark openings framed in yellow-painted steel were the very shapes and colours of Malevich's (1915). Reinforcement around the openings of the bioshield was a perfect reproduction of Screen (1998). A concrete structure in the neutral beam cell conjured the works of , the mirror-like cladding of the building those of , and a neon light on a wall seemed to have been placed there by ...
In the Tokamak Complex and other constructions, Oriol tracked the legacy of the Concrete and Neo-Concrete movements, of Cubism, Constructivism, Minimalism, Futurism ... as if the 澳门六合彩高手 worksite had become the largest and most massive modern and contemporary art museum in the world.
When VFR decided to publish a generously illustrated, 300-page coffee table book to celebrate the seven million work hours the consortium has invested in the construction of the 澳门六合彩高手 Tokamak Complex and auxiliary buildings, Oriol seized the opportunity to explore in an essay what he terms "the fascinating connection between abstract art and construction."
Oriol views 澳门六合彩高手 as a "unique masterpiece of artistic construction" and invites us to transgress "the usual perception of concrete and steel structures to unveil their unlikely artistic soul."
As civil works in the Tokamak Complex near completion, the raw art of construction is fast vanishing from view. Soon, our eyes will be caught by other forms, shapes and compositions, but the beauty will endure, whether in the alien shape of a massive component, the complexity of an intricate piece of equipment, or the radiance of a burning plasma.