Striped Duck Cookery: Bruno Cals: "Horizons"- A Captivating New Perspective

Showing at 1500, a gallery in New York City devoted to Brazilian photography, the series "Horizons" from 2008 by Bruno Cals, appear to depict abstract landscape images. I ponder these dreamy, starkly architectural places and wonder where they could possibly be located.

I am fascinated as I learn the images are of facades of buildings in the cities of Sao Paulo, Toyko and Buenos Aires. By looking up the facades toward the sky, a captivating new perspective is created by the shifting of the horizon line.

Above, Hermes

The building above is Maison Hermes, Toyko, Japan by Renzo Piano, 2001. The glass brick facade is transformed into an endless landscape of gridded watery pools.

Above, Prada

The building above is the Prada Store, Toyko, Japan by Herzog and de Meuron, 2003.
The diamond shaped curved glass panels of the facade become an open sea with enormous swells.