Showing posts with label LANDED. Show all posts
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GROWTH OVER GROWTH @TRIENNALE
GROWTH.
OVERgrowth.
Exploring
growth and Milan through imaginary architecture
a
series of imaginary architecture drawings by Stefan Davidovici in
dialogue with photos by Stefano Gusmeroli in
exhibition at the CALL OVER 35, 21stTriennale, Palazzo della Triennale, Milan June 22 to July 31 2016
“...it is in the guise of fiction that one can more easily and relentlessly tell the truth.”
Robert D. Kaplan, In Europe's Shadow
The
drawings and images are literally 'growing' together, under the eyes
of the viewer.
They
raise questions about the mechanism that makes architectural spaces
alive – the very fact that, like us, they are born, evolve, get old
and finally disappear, subject to the very flow of life and history.
The
photos and the drawings are intimately related. They grow together.
The two media are contrasting but are in a clear, active, living
dialogue.
RUSHING UP. LANDED, 9, MILAN 2014
a drawing commissioned by the Uncube Magazine for 'Urban Commons', their 20th issue.
From the dead depths of the planet, rushing up in a frozen eruption, the entrails of Milan blindly overtake us on their way to the sky.
background image by Stefano Gusmeroli.
LANDED, 1-5
LANDED.
An intermediary step between Mars and the reality of the immediate 'here', this series of drawings is a quest on a series of questions:
Is fantastic architecture closer to reality when placed in town?
Does simple contextualisation bring drawings closer to becoming actual buildings?
Is the city of Milan (like many others, jealously guarded in its more or less ancient shape, with a downtown barely allowed to grow) rightly keeping its character, or just turning into an ossified postcard town?
One way or another, it's good to forget for a while about square meters, 60-degree angles, bureaucracy and functionality, to ride free above the roofs of the city.
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