Latin America - IILA
Pavilion of the Istituto Italo-Latinoamericano (IILA), Arsenale - Isolotto. Commissioner: Sylvia Irrazábal; curator: Alfons Hug.
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The Second and a Half Dimension – An Expedition to the Photographic Plateau. 2010
Installation. Video HD, 9 minutes, colour, sound, Spanish with English subtitles.
Framed black and white photographic negative print. 70 x 90 cm.
Framed archival letter from Daniel Ruzo to the Royal Society of London.
Bucher follows the explorations of Daniel Ruzo on the Marcahuasi plateau in Peru. In the 1950s the Peruvian cryptologist and anthropologist discovered an ancient park of stone monuments on this Andean plateau, which he dated to around 10,000 years ago. The huge blocks of natural rock sculpted in a distinctive technique display their anthropomorphic, zoomorphic and mythological shapes only when the rays of the sun shine on them at specific times and seasons of the year. Bucher recorded the account of custodian Severiano Olivares during a visit to the plateau.
© Photo: Haupt & Binder
Pavilion of the Istituto Italo-Latinoamericano (IILA), Arsenale - Isolotto. Commissioner: Sylvia Irrazábal; curator: Alfons Hug.