Saturday 21st November, 2009

Tuesday 15 December 7pm

Dundee Contemporary Arts

To mark the culmination of DCA's 10th birthday year, we are very pleased to welcome DCA architect Richard Murphy back to the building. He will present a talk that, like the No Reflections exhibition in DCA galleries, links the cities of Dundee and Venice.

For four years before he set up his practice, Richard Murphy was a full time teacher at Edinburgh University. His research topic was studying Scarpa’s Castelvecchio Museum, Verona, and later the Querini Stampalia, Venice. He was responsible for a full measured survey of the building, an examination of all of Scarpa’s surviving 750 drawings, three exhibitions in Edinburgh, London and Verona itself, and a major monograph in English with an Italian edition on the building. A second monograph on the Querini Stampalia was published in 1993. He has lectured all over the world on Scarpa and presented and advised a Channel 4 film on his work directed by Murray Grigor in 1996, the same year he won the commission for DCA. His practice, set up in 1991, has inevitably been influenced by this intense study. DCA represents the first large scale work, and there are many examples of connections between study and practice, not least of course the presence of a gallery within the ruins of a previous structure.

Richard will talk briefly about his researches and on how a number of his projects - not just DCA - have been influenced by Scarpa.

This event is free but ticketed. Tickets can be booked and collected from the DCA Front Desk.

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