In 2009 I had the privilege of seeing selected works by painter Francis Bacon alongside masterworks by Caravaggio, exhibited together in the lofty chambers of the Villa Borghese in Rome. The exhibition had been assembled to “merely” allow for the aesthetic experience of seeing two different, yet strangely resonant, bodies of work alongside each other.
While the subject matter of the Architectural Urbanism: Seoul/Melbourne exhibition in Melbourne this May couldn’t be further removed from that of my Italian experience, there are some striking similarities. Both exhibitions pushed two different yet resonant bodies of work into close proximity. Both afforded the viewer the opportunity to take a measure of differences and similarities in the subject matter – in the latter’s case, depictions of selected built architectural projects from Seoul and Melbourne. Finally, both exhibitions immersed the viewer in an over-scaled (or perhaps life-scaled) visual field as a fundamental part of the experience.
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