Many years ago, Bilbao ceased to be that gray city, shaken in the shadow of some large shipyards -today, barely a franchise of oblivion, little less than ideal for the romantics of industrial archeology- to become a potential modern city and An essential point of reference for tourism, which shortly after setting foot in it, feels immediately trapped by its charm and to a certain extent, also like at home.
Like all the great cities of the world, Bilbao can be seen, admired and also felt, from multiple points of view, each conserving, however, its own essence and individuality, which even separately, they have no doubt, that they form a decidedly monumental experience.
Precisely, of that monumentality, which serves as the setting for that prodigious meander of the Cantabrian Sea, which known as the Ría, draws a dividing line on an eminently Borgesian city, where the present has been settling under the solid foundations of the past, but without losing sight of the details of the future for a moment, highlights that prodigy of modern architecture, which is none other than one of the elements that has contributed the most to endowing this undoubted European capital with elegance: the Guggenhein Museum.
The Guggenhein Museum -designed by Canadian architect Frank O. Geary and inaugurated in 1997- is one of those creations, whose design surprises and at the same time seduces, based on a structure that, from my point of view and Applied to the Fine Arts, I would not hesitate to frame this breaking of schemes, so akin to an artistic category, such as Surrealism, whose method of impacting is directly aimed at that analytical engine, always left in the hands of the particular fantasy, what is creativity
Possibly, this is better appreciated -and hence, the intentionality implicit in this post- if it is observed, from an eminently nocturnal perspective and we let the unconscious inflate its lungs -metaphorically speaking- with that oxygen that the night always brings with it. , in the form of mysteries, and let us see, in its colossal design, a structure that may seem to us, beyond the objective and evident, the worthy preamble of an oneiric dream, in which the natural and the artificial settle their differences , within a universe of contrasts, whose appreciation depends, above all, on the sensory education of the viewer.
It is like recreating yourself on a fantastic journey and recalling, by moonlight, those imaginary structures of universal worlds, dreamed of by the greatest authors of fiction, which today, more than ever, seems to have definitively become science.
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