TAB Event - Rogelio Salmona "Open Spaces / Collective Spaces"

Rogelio Salmona "Open Spaces / Collective Spaces"

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At Galerie Taisei
Media: Architecture, Art Talk

Taisei Construction Inc.'s (president: Takashi Yamauchi) permanent collection gallery Gallery Taisei is holding an architecture exhibition by Rogelio Salmona entitled "Open Spaces/Collective Spaces" from September 8th to November 21st 2008.

Salmona is a noted South American architect from Colombia whose original sketches, models, photographs and videos - some 130 pieces - will be on display at this exhibition, supported and produced by the Colombian Association of Architects.

This is the first exhibition in Japan to take a comprehensive look at the work of Salmona, and is part of a series of cultural events to mark the 100th anniversary of friendly relations between Japan and Colombia.

Symposium: September 8th (Mon) 18:00-21:00
Shinjuku Center Building 52F, Taisei Construction, Large Hall

Panelists:
Martha Devia (professor, National Bogota University, exhibition director)
Maria Elvia Madorinian (landscape architect, Salmona's widow)
Hiroshi Naito (architect, professor at Tokyo University) and others

Topics:
Salmona's architecture, architecture and urban development in the Republic of Colombia

*For more details and to apply to attend, see gallery website.