Master Plan, 2018 |
According to World Bank’s definition, a Master Plan is a dynamic long-term planning document that provides a conceptual layout to guide future growth and development. Master planning is about making the connection between buildings, social settings, and their surrounding environments.
The radical and unrealized proposals laid out for Medellin during the late forties and fifties of XX century by architect Pedro Nel Gomez, a Colombian master of painting, sculpture, but also an urban planner and mathematician, would have guided the city to unexpected developments that we yearn for today, and that reveals him as a visionary figure. Master Plan brings together new works including objects, sculptures, drawings and one architectural installation which draw on a few unrealized ideas conceived by Pedro Nel Gómez for Medellin city. With strategies that range from appropriation, displacement, and collaborative work with writers, architects, designers and curators, the works on display redraw and rebuild urban plans for developing new inhabited areas, a vast public park, a totemic group of sculptures for the National University campus and even an academic issue in which Pedro Nel Gomez acted as advisor and wrote poignant articles about art, architecture and urbanism. |