Jose Dàvila, a daring sculpture in the forecourt of Botta’s Mountain Church in Mogno

Architect Jose Dávila, a sculptor who studied under Mexican Pritzker Prize winner Luis Barragán, places this sculpture in the forecourt of the church of Mogno that was designed by the Ticino architect Mario Botta. The sculptures are both fragile and expansive, playing with physical forces and at the same time referencing the white stone of Peccia; a huge mass of limestone formations that came under pressure in the process of folding of the Massif Central, and then crystallised due to the resulting heat. The result of this process is a coarse-grained, compacted marble that presents in a variety of colours from whitish-ivory to grey, greenish, brownish to a dark grey-white, and textures from light streaks to clear, bold banding.
His sculpture is based on what only seems to be a harmonious whole and always thematise visible contrasts as well: natural stone or art materials, difficulty or ease, fixed or moving, location or change. Jose Dávilas thus precisely and topically addresses a process of accelerating change that can be observed in many areas of today’s society. He raises questions about a location that is undeniably vital for all people and their human identity. His stones know to wait. They do not move. They move the viewer and are thus a vivid answer to the overbearing uncertainty of a present that is becoming increasingly confusing.

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Taken in: Switzerland / Ticino / Lavizzara / Mogno (show map)

Taken on: August 18, 2022

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Sets appears in: • Mogno & Botta's Mountain Church

Groups appears in: • Allegri si nasce o si diventa:))

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