In the framework of PhotoEspaña, the Museo ICO (Calle Zorrilla, 3) presents until 8 September the photographic exhibition Instants en la arquitectura. Iwan Baan.
Iwan Baan (Alkmaar, Netherlands, 1975) is internationally considered as one of the most prominent photographers of architecture. With its impressive images it documents both the growth of global megalopolises as traditional architecture or informal constructions, In addition to the works of renowned contemporary architects such as Rem Koolhaas, Herzog & de Meuron, Francis Kéré, David Chipperfield, Kazuyo Sejima and Tatiana Bilbao.
Baan captures the character and context of a building by combining aerial images taken from a helicopter with a whole range of different perspectives, from wide panoramas to detail plans.
This is the first comprehensive retrospective dedicated to the work of the Dutch photographer. Through a wide selection of his works, the exhibition also offers an interesting panorama of early 21st century architecture contextualized in its urban and social environments and animated by the people who inhabit it.
Structured in four sections (Perspectives, China, Cities and Lines of continuity), it shows examples from all areas of the work of Baan since the early 2000s -when a meeting with the Dutch architect Rem Koolhas in 2004 would be decisive for his specialization in architecture photography-including film material and little-known images of informal constructions, from a Chinese circular village to an Ethiopian monolithic church, from the self-built apartment blocks in Cairo where the Coptic community is engaged in garbage recycling to the busy Tower of David in Caracas.
