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well. They had recuperated and restored large portions of the historic
building. In the patio, they were finishing the adjacent buildings,
destined to house archaeological collections and the temporary exposition
hall. They had already placed two pieces from the Iberian
era: an important pillar statue and a turreted funeral monument with
an effigy, for which an extremely complex support had to be built
due to the height and weight of the objects...
...but as a would-be shaman, I had to let intuition guide me. Something
didn’t fit. Space speaks, and you have to listen to it, and interpret
it. Space has its own aura. The space was complaining; it
wasn’t comfortable with itself.
I drove back to Cuenca. It is a long drive, about three hours. I tried
to concentrate on the parking area and forget about the Palace and
the archaeological collection. I had to focus on the City Museum.
This magnificent space offered even greater possibilities to work
with heavy-duty projection equipment. The only problem that
concerned me was the glass facade and the interesting stone wall.
Nevertheless, that heavy-duty image of the funeral monuments,
from the sixth or fifth centuries BC, in the hall of a fifteenth-century
palace, renovated in the twenty-first century just didn’t let me concentrate.
The pieces seemed like ornaments, trophies. It was as if
they had lost their soul. But there was also the problem of numeric
relations. Here is the left side of my brain (the part that is trying to
speak in English) that failed to understand the situation. If they
had destined hardly 300 square meters to exhibit more than 1,000
objects (including two huge sculptures), and approximately 2,000
square meters at most for 50 objects... from my standpoint, it was
an unresolved equation. Nobody was going to propose anything
except something to improve the collection in the best space; the
best objects in the noblest space. The first floor of the parking lot is a
space that nobody took into consideration; it was a secondary space,
a lastminute add on. But to me, it was fantastic!!!
Once in Cuenca, I phoned our contact and commented my intention
of changing the global approach for the museum: let’s exchange
the spaces, because it seems to be the most logical option.
He answered that it would be hard to convince the management
team because they had spent so much time working on the palace,
distributing the exhibit halls and the objects, adapting the flow to
move with the plan, etc.
But we decide to try...
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