Opening: Thursday July 20th 5pm A hundred years ago, Rogelio Yrurtia embarked on a dream, one he guarded with the silence reserved for secrets. Today, in a room of the museum that served as his home, stands the colossal ghost of that reverie: the scale model of The Triumph of the Republic, a monumental piece designed for construction in Plaza de Mayo. For many years, only a very small group of people had the opportunity to peep through the door of that room, or examine the plans, sketches, or any other notes. That protective silence shrouding the project was captured on a sort of curtain that, placed behind the scale model, shows us a weft of fragments of fantastic memories woven into the design of the pattern. Meanwhile, we continue to see before our eyes this scaled-down construction that we wish to walk through from the inside, reducing our size until we are able to fit in.
Alberto Passolini
