ENTRY DESCRIPTION
“The silence of the shape” is a small tribute to Siza Vieira, the most important Portuguese architect. This photograph was taken at the headquarters of Fundação Iberê, Siza's only project in Brazil. As a kind of synthesis of his work, the architecture of this building is expressed by the discretion and simplicity of the forms. It invites visitors to observe the construction in silence and gradually discover its sophisticated and elegant creative complexity. The image frames an abstract fraction that accentuates the formal and rhythmic articulation of the building. Overexposed and grainy, it suggests the graphite drawings that architects usually make and evokes a lyrical encounter with the subtlety.

AUTHOR
José Roberto Bassul was born in Rio de Janeiro and lives in Brasília. Graduated in Architecture, he defines his photography as "an attempt to draw thoughts, to project desires, to build spaces for the imagination". He has received several national and international awards, including 1st place at the 10th Prix Photo AF 2021, the Latin America Prize at FotoRio 2020, Book Photographer of the Year at the Moscow Int’l Foto Awards – MIFA 2020, and 1st places at the Int’l Photography Awards – IPA in 2018 and 2021. Published in specialized magazines in Brazil, France, USA, England, Mexico, Argentina, Italy and Spain, his works has often been exposed in festivals, galleries and museums, in five solo shows and dozen of group exhibitions in Brazil and abroad. He published the photobooks Concretist Cityscape (2018) and On Barely Nothing (2020). Represented by galleries in Brasilia, Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo, he has works in important private collections, and in the collections of the National Museum of the Republic (Brasília), the Museum of Modern Art of Rio de Janeiro –MAM (Joaquim Paiva Collection), the Art Museum of Rio de Janeiro – MAR, the Diário Contemporâneo Photography Collection (Belém) and the Museum of Photography (Fortaleza).

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