At MAXXI, the architecture of Louis Kahn in the photographs of Roberto Schezen

Running at MAXXI in Rome from December 18, 2019 until June 2, 2020 is the exhibition Architecture, Silence and Light. Louis Kahn in the Photographs of Roberto Schezen, a focus on the architecture of Louis Kahn (Kuressaare, 1901 - New York, 1974) through the photographs of Roberto Schezen.

On display are the various materials that are part of the Schezen Fund, from this year part of the Museum’s Photography Collections: from positives printed by the author on silver salts, to large-format negatives, to precious color slides, along with large prints produced from the original negatives.

Schezen’s images take us on a journey that moves from silence toward light, traversing themes dear to Louis Kahn such as order, form, awe, and silence.

The more classical architectural photographs, which restore the attention to the changing luministic qualities of space and Kahn’s rigorous design research through his best-known works, are joined by more “reckless” visions and alienating details, in which Schezen demonstrates an authorial interpretation of the themes of light, shadow and form, paradigms common to architecture and photography.

For all information you can MAXXI’s official website.

Pictured: Roberto Schezen, the Kimbell Art Museum in Forth Worth, Texas (c. 2001)

At MAXXI, the architecture of Louis Kahn in the photographs of Roberto Schezen

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