{"id":5373,"date":"2011-10-04T08:58:11","date_gmt":"2011-10-04T08:58:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sergiodecastro.org\/uncategorized-en\/hopital-saint-bois-2"},"modified":"2019-05-11T09:22:42","modified_gmt":"2019-05-11T09:22:42","slug":"saint-bois-hospital","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sergiodecastro.org\/en\/architecture\/saint-bois-hospital","title":{"rendered":"SAINT-BOIS HOSPITAL"},"content":{"rendered":"<table class=\"rs_vitra\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>Mural paintings for the Martirene Pavilion at the Saint-Bois Hospital, Montevideo<\/td>\n<td><a title=\"Saint-Bois Hospital\" href=\"http:\/\/sergiodecastro.org\/en\/architecture\/saint-bois-hospital\/images\">Images<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>In 1944, Sergio de Castro made, with a group of disciples under the direction of Joaqu\u00edn  Torres Garc\u00eda, the mural paintings for the Martiren\u00e9 Pavilion of the Hospital Saint Bois in Montevideo (Uruguay). The pavilion was a space for patients suffering from tuberculosis, built in the 30s, the decoration of which was requested to Torres Garc\u00eda by the hospital authorities. 36 works (7 made by Torres himself) were made between May and December 1944, with 19 disciples such as Gonzalo Fonseca, Julio Uruguay Alpuy, Jos\u00e9 Gurvich, Augusto and Horacio Torres, Guido Castillo, Daniel de los Santos, Rosa Acle\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Sergio de Castro participated in the project with two paintings: Casa (1944) and Mar (1944), presenting the distinctive features of constructivist universalism according to Torres Garc\u00eda: <em>planisme, geometrism, rigorous structuration of space, primary colours (plus black and white), and the repertory of constructivist signs, with a reduction of the subject to the objects symbolizing it.<\/em> <sup>1<\/sup><\/p>\n<p>In his text of July 1944 <em>Una decoraci\u00f3n mural en la moderna est\u00e9tica realista<\/em>, Torres Garc\u00eda speaks of Byzantine and Romanic Art as the main aesthetic sources of the work:<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cGreat spirituality and mysticism, and strict rules of abstract composition; frontal law, schematization of form, order, definite materials. In my conception, it is the greatest art ever been. World of soul and world of reason; universality in a whole, unique science; admirable example for all times, of mural art.<\/p>\n<p>Architecture and decoration, in such an art, are one single thing; only formal sense, dominating everything, and only spiritual sense; two phases of a single thing; stones and paintings (or mosaics) impregnated of a deep religiosity; art-humanism, truth, aesthetic and non-descriptive sense (as it is always symbolic) nor imitative (as it is abstract), true and deep miracle.\u201d<\/em> <sup>2<\/sup><\/p>\n<p><small>1. Jacques Poloni-Simard, \u00ab Le muralisme des ann\u00e9es 1930 et 1940 dans les pays du R\u00edo de la Plata \u00bb, in <em>Nuevo Mundo, Mundos Nuevos<\/em>, n\u00ba <em>Images, m\u00e9moires et sons<\/em>, 30\/01\/2014. Available online: <a href=\"http:\/\/nuevomundo.revues.org\/66328\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">nuevomundo.revues.org\/66328<\/a><\/small><\/p>\n<p><small>2. Joaqu\u00edn Torres Garc\u00eda, as quoted in Cecilia de Torres (dir.), <em>Murales TTG<\/em>, catalogue of the exposition at Museo Gurvich, Montevideo, April &#8211; July 2007, p. 134.<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mural paintings for the Martirene Pavilion at the Saint-Bois Hospital, Montevideo Images In 1944, Sergio de Castro made, with a group of disciples under the direction of Joaqu\u00edn Torres Garc\u00eda, the mural paintings for the Martiren\u00e9 Pavilion of the Hospital Saint Bois in Montevideo (Uruguay). The pavilion was a space for patients suffering from tuberculosis, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17,208],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sergiodecastro.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5373"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sergiodecastro.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sergiodecastro.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sergiodecastro.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sergiodecastro.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5373"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/sergiodecastro.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5373\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9219,"href":"https:\/\/sergiodecastro.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5373\/revisions\/9219"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sergiodecastro.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sergiodecastro.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sergiodecastro.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}