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Curated by Guillermo Fernández-Abascal and Jack Cooper
This show conceals a double agenda. Angelo Candalepas is arguably the most important architect to have graduated from the University of Technology Sydney. This alone would be a sufficient reason for an exhibition, but the additional fact that Angelo failed his fourth year project merits its own discussion and celebration. Most of all, now that failing has become not only an educational issue but a political and financial one, we must address Angelo’s project as the foundation for a possible culture of failing at UTS.
Three A0 drawings from The Swimming Pool, beautifully drawn by hand at this school, are presented in The Space. They become evidence of the fragility of his unbelievable ambition, the desperation of his questionable poems, the craft of his drawings, the conviction of his design decisions and the stubbornness with which he faces any project. To accompany the drawings, we asked his former head of school, Professor Winston Barnett to explain why it failed. At the same time, we asked Urtzi Grau, the current Masters Director and Angelo’s “boss” at this School, if it would fail today. The texts elucidate on the brilliant insanity of this institution.
In any case, Angelo is probably the most ruthless architect operating in Sydney right now. He never underestimates the darker side of his cultural project, simultaneously conquering the commercial and the multicultural Sydney on behalf of Architecture.
Angelo is both a complicated architect and a simple one. He is complicated because his work always presents a strange personal mannerism. He is no purist and he accepts it; his work has been impure from the beginning. Yet, his peculiar clarity dominates as seen in this exhibition’s three drawings. And, of course, Angelo’s project fails.