Arcos

  • In situ

Past creation

installation

2020

A poetic, abstract and geometric intervention for the Concentrico architecture festival, a huge house of cards

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Invited by Concentrico, Jordi Galí and his collaborators came up with the Arcos installation, an in situ creation based on 20 wooden panels. Arcos is a human gesture and a construction project for the Plaza de Santiago in Logroño (Spain), a mineral, bare square punctuated by cypress trees and an opening to the sky and the river Ebro. A 40-metre-long installation on 3 levels, it forms 2 large, soft, vertical arches with wooden panels connected by cables and held together by tensegrity. Built in public, Arcos rises to a height of around 7m. A poetic, abstract and geometric intervention, Arcos is an immense house of cards that echoes the string of cypress trees and the rear façade of Santiago church.

This project is the result of a long and close collaboration. Jordi Galí has invited two of his close collaborators to take part in this project: the dancer and permaculturist Jérémy Paon and Julien Quartier, co-founder with Charles Robin of De Facto, a cabinet-making, scenographic design and contemporary art project company.
Arcos is a work in situ for Concentrico #6.

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Team

Designed by Jordi Galí
Created with Jérémy Paon, Julien Quartier

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