18th September 2014, Flores & Prats Performative Lecture at Cercle Artístic de Sant Lluc. ♦ Flores i Prats

studiolo in the wall – in red – scale 1 to 1

five metres long by three and a half metres high to draw on

drawing the studiolo window to see the giants

initial sketch – with section through courtyard and plan of wall to excavate

the giants ferran and merce in the neighbouring palace

working table in the cercle de sant lluc

measuring the base drawing to transfer it to the wall

presentation and explanation of the drawing that we are making

beginning with a situation plan – scale 1 200

ground floor of the palace occupied by cercle de sant lluc

ground floor of the palace – with the three courtyards – scale 1 20

section of the interior of the excavated wall scale 1 to 2

detail of the first steps towards the studiolo

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18th September 2014, Flores & Prats Performative Lecture at Cercle Artístic de Sant Lluc.

While working in such an antique Palace, with so many centuries and stories behind it, we felt closely drawn to it through the drawing and painting activities it hosts, very much applied and enjoyed in the studio as well.

After receiving the invitation to draw on a huge three and a half by five metres long wall, the big papers used at the studio seemed reduced by comparison. Therefore, the wall became a plane to hold information on a project that was thought for that particular space, the wall itself: digging into it to hold a Studiolo, a small room within a bigger structure, stealing some space from a public building without interfering in its everyday use, and then drawing on top of it to document it.

When studying an object for someone to build, you look at it from both from the distance and up-close, and all this thoughts and information are placed together on the same paper, so that the information is not lost. They become letters to the carpenter, the constructor o whoever has to build it, explaining the whole project. This drawings are then the tool that explain the whole documentation before construction, making the translation from idea to built work possible.