Torres Blancas
Etching with aquatint
Approx 24x31cm
2019
Edition of 50
Handprinted on 220gsm Fabriano
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Francisco Javier Sáenz de Oiza completed this massive concrete tower in Madrid in 1969. A residential block, its cylindrical volumes contrast heavily with the majority of reinforced concrete Brutalist buildings found at the time; the semicircular balconies creating a sense of of deeply interlocking forms. Today, the building has faded somewhat; the concrete grey and grimy, the wooden shuttering protecting the balconies flaking and rough - and yet it still seems like a building from an imagined future (albeit dystopic), rather than from an aspirational Modernist past.
Etching with aquatint
Approx 24x31cm
2019
Edition of 50
Handprinted on 220gsm Fabriano
Francisco Javier Sáenz de Oiza completed this massive concrete tower in Madrid in 1969. A residential block, its cylindrical volumes contrast heavily with the majority of reinforced concrete Brutalist buildings found at the time; the semicircular balconies creating a sense of of deeply interlocking forms. Today, the building has faded somewhat; the concrete grey and grimy, the wooden shuttering protecting the balconies flaking and rough - and yet it still seems like a building from an imagined future (albeit dystopic), rather than from an aspirational Modernist past.