Inaugurated in 2008 and designed by architect Rodrigo Cerviño Lopez (Tacoa Arquitetos), this gallery bringing together works by Adriana Varejão does not unveil what is presented inside of it. The ‘blind building,’ as Cerviño named it, is a major concrete box suspended over a reflecting pool that, in its turn, reveals and broadens the surrounding nature, thus proposing a dialogue between architecture and landscape. The point of departure for the gallery design is the very structure previously placed there, a maintenance warehouse for the early farm that, once removed, left a pronounced cut in the elevated plot, then used as the foundation to building the gallery.
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