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Ângela Ferreira
Die Vlermuis Huis (The Bat House) (after the house Die Es designed and built by Gabriël Fagan in Camps Bay, Cape Town)
2006
480 x 250 x 258 cm (dimensions variable)
“In 1966, Gabriël Fagan constructed a minimalist modernist building with a sculptural
rooftop in Camps Bay, Cape Town. In Ângela Ferreira’s sculpture, Fagan’s building
has been appropriated and has materialized in a skeleton-like structure, which,
upside down, has become part of the roof structure of the exhibition space. The focus
in the space is now the sculptural rooftop, elegantly floating a few centimeters above
the gallery floor, literally underlining, in its wave-like appearance, the structure which
holds and links it to the gallery roof. The sculptural functional roof in South Africa
turns into the unused, abstract base of the architecture-evoking sculpture in Lisbon,
generating thoughts not only about the intertwined relationship between architecture
and sculpture, but also about the mutual involvement of African and European
culture, and the centre and the periphery. Die Vlermuis Huis / The Bat House is not
about the crossing of architecture into sculpture, but about the acknowledgement of a
dependency and an inversion.” (from here -download press pdf)
© lina bo bardi - SESC pompeia - sao paulo, brazil - 1990




Valerio Olgiati, Laurent Stalder
éditions Quart Verlag Luzern. Juin 2010
anglais: ISBN 978-3-03761-031-2
Allemand: ISBN 978-3-03761-030-5
A beautiful house by architect Eduardo Souto De Moura - Pritzker prize Laureate