Leo Filser, Ferdinand Knecht I ARCHITEKTURFORUM MÜNCHEN I SS18 I MSA I Team Schemel

Architekturforum München Prof. Kirsten Schemel Leo Filser | Ferdinand Knecht

Helio Oiticica Metaesquema - 1958

The term ‘metaesquema’ can be translated as ‘meta-structure’.

While Oiticica himself never explicitly provided a clear rationale for this title, it may refer to the particular use of symmetry in the work, which provides a framework for the artist to work with, but also to challenge. While Ramírez has argued that the rotational symmetry of the Metaesquema works provides a degree of ‘formal structure’ (Ramírez 2007, p.42), Small has noted that it also enacts a ‘three-dimensional folding of the flat surface of the plane’, which ‘acts as a point of spatiotemporal torsion rather than stability’ (Small 2016, p.35). In other words, through rotational symmetry, Oiticica created a kind of structure which folds in on itself and so might reasonably be called a ‘meta-structure’. [...]

These works are also notable for the way in which they evoke but destabilise grid compositions [...] Rather than ‘the balance and predictability of normative perception’, Oiticica’s Metaesquema paintings confront the viewer with ‘a vertiginous, queasy ... sensation of jostling forms’

Konzeption

Absenken des Niveaus

Emporsteigen des Grundkörpers

Zerspringen der Masse

Formung einer kartesische Struktur

Ausbilden von Cardo & Decumanus

Rotation innerhalb der Struktur

F i g u r- G r u n d - P l a n | M 1 : 2 0 0 0

Lageplan | M 1:500

Grundriss Untergeschoss | M 1:300

Grundriss 1. Obergeschoss | M 1:300

Grundriss 3. Obergeschoss | M 1:300

Grundriss 5. Obergeschoss | M 1:300

Grundriss Erdgeschoss | M 1:300

Grundriss 2. Obergeschoss | M 1:300

Grundriss 4. Obergeschoss | M 1:300

Dachaufsicht | M 1:300

Schnitt A | M 1:300

Schnitt B | M 1:300

Ansicht Nord | M 1:500

Ansicht Süd | M 1:500

Ansicht West | M 1:500