The relationship of writers, philosophers, and artists with their creative spaces has always fascinated scholars of literature and aesthetics, especially considering that the place where a work is written influences its rhythm, structure, and content.

This exhibition stems from this premise, and through the spaces chosen by eleven key figures of Modernism, it explores the importance of organizing one's creative space in the act of creation. In this sense, the environment they selected for their creative development is reduced (at least on the surface) to a minimal architectural expression, often immersed in nature that is sometimes lush, sometimes rugged and minimalist.

The common thread between all these authors and the places they chose to work is undoubtedly a return to a certain conscious primitivism, more feasible to carry out at the end of the 19th or beginning of the 20th century than at the present time, but which nevertheless constitutes an example of the purifying will of the creative act with respect to what was already beginning to take shape as a fundamentally urban lifestyle from which it was very difficult to escape.

Thus, Cabins for thinking The exhibition analyzes a series of examples of intimate and essential architecture through a collection of photographs taken at the sites where these structures are located, along with their corresponding architectural plans, models, and various documents, such as a selection of herbarium specimens from each of the cabin locations. The exhibition explores the relationship between consciously chosen intimacy and the creative process of philosophers. Ludwig Wittgenstein y Martin Heideggerthe composers Edvard Grieg y Gustav Mahlerthe playwright August Strindbergthe writers knut hamsun, George Bernard Shaw y Virginia Woolf, the poet Dylan Thomas, the filmmaker DAnd finally, the explorer and writer Thomas Edward Lawrence, better known as Lawrence of Arabia.

A project by: Eduardo Outeiro

Commissioners: Alfredo Olmedo and Alberto Ruiz de Samaniego

Organized by:
Luis Seoane Foundation

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Tuesday to Sunday from 11:00 to 14:00 and from 17:00 to 21:00. Closed Mondays.