PIEDRA VOLCÁNICA - Pablo Lopez Luz
The images by Pablo López Luz are sensitive to the tensions of the urban landscape, expressing the relationship of city dwellers to their environment and, in particular, to the tensions that encode the collective memory. This is the spirit which animates the photographic essay by the artist on different buildings of the capital built out of volcanic stone , a material which evokes the massive forms of pre-Columbian architecture. The immense metropolis, often shaken by seismicactivity , stretches under the gaze of Popocatéptl, at more of 5000 meters altitude, and has encroached on the slopes of the Ajusco, volcano dormant at south. The volcanic stone called tezontle has been used for centuries as material for construction : the façade of the National Palace , embodying the past pre-Columbian, colonial and modern of Mexico, is made of .
The images by Pablo López Luz are sensitive to the tensions of the urban landscape, expressing the relationship of city dwellers to their environment and, in particular, to the tensions that encode the collective memory. This is the spirit which animates the photographic essay by the artist on different buildings of the capital built out of volcanic stone , a material which evokes the massive forms of pre-Columbian architecture. The immense metropolis, often shaken by seismicactivity , stretches under the gaze of Popocatéptl, at more of 5000 meters altitude, and has encroached on the slopes of the Ajusco, volcano dormant at south. The volcanic stone called tezontle has been used for centuries as material for construction : the façade of the National Palace , embodying the past pre-Columbian, colonial and modern of Mexico, is made of .
The images by Pablo López Luz are sensitive to the tensions of the urban landscape, expressing the relationship of city dwellers to their environment and, in particular, to the tensions that encode the collective memory. This is the spirit which animates the photographic essay by the artist on different buildings of the capital built out of volcanic stone , a material which evokes the massive forms of pre-Columbian architecture. The immense metropolis, often shaken by seismicactivity , stretches under the gaze of Popocatéptl, at more of 5000 meters altitude, and has encroached on the slopes of the Ajusco, volcano dormant at south. The volcanic stone called tezontle has been used for centuries as material for construction : the façade of the National Palace , embodying the past pre-Columbian, colonial and modern of Mexico, is made of .
