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Houses, Landscapes and Mental Spaces by Jon Koko

July 23, 2017 by Mariabruna Fabrizi 1 Comment

Jon Koko is an artist who currently lives and works in Malmö, Sweden. His square illustrations and paintings are carefully balanced scenes with mostly … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Architecture, Art, Representation: Axonometric projection, Territories, The Everyday Uncanny, Visual Atlas Tagged With: illustration, landscapes

Jeff Wall, Study for ‘A Sudden Gust of Wind (After Hokusai)’, (1993)

June 28, 2017 by Fosco Lucarelli Leave a Comment

There's a fine line between fact and fiction, between a moment and a perfect representation of that moment. Melissa Denes, Picture Perfect, the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Art, Territories, The Everyday Uncanny, When Photography Catches Time Tagged With: hokusai, photography, postmodernism, reference

Tim Mara’s Prints Narrative

June 27, 2017 by Fosco Lucarelli 1 Comment

Despite his focus on ordinary scenes and everyday objects, Irish artist Tim Mara (1948-1997) always rejected the qualification of Pop artist and … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Art, Interior Landscapes, Territories, The Everyday Uncanny Tagged With: Interiors, printmaking

“Flood! A Novel In Pictures” by Eric Drooker (1992)

June 26, 2017 by Mariabruna Fabrizi 1 Comment

Published for the first time in 1992, "Flood! A novel in pictures" is a silent story told through images by American artist Eric Drooker. A black and … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Art, The Everyday Uncanny Tagged With: Black and White, comic book, novel, rain

A Perfect Grid: the Roman Town of Timgad, the African Pompeii

June 21, 2017 by Mariabruna Fabrizi Leave a Comment

The city of Timgad, in today's Algeria, was founded as a military settlement by Emperor Trajan around AD 100 and its original scope was to be a … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Architecture, Fields, Housing the Multitude, Territories Tagged With: grid, military, roman, square, town

Indian Memory: A Series of Ceramics by Ettore Sottsass Jr. (1972-73)

June 12, 2017 by Mariabruna Fabrizi Leave a Comment

Pepper, Cardamom, Cinnamon, Basilico, Cherry, Lapislazzuli, Camomilla and Sugar are eight colorful potteries designed by Ettore Sottsass between 1972 … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Architecture, Art Tagged With: archetype, color, Design, memory, the form of form

Comic as Theater: Gianni De Luca’s Romeo and Juliet (1976)

May 20, 2017 by Fosco Lucarelli 1 Comment

Gianni De Luca was an Italian comic book artist known for his drawing mastery and the variety of techniques he introduced into the comic art. His … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Art, Interior Landscapes, When Photography Catches Time Tagged With: comic book

The Everyday Life of the Bourgeoisie: Watercolours by Josabeth Sjöberg

May 18, 2017 by Fosco Lucarelli 1 Comment

After the death of her parents, wealthy Josabeth Sjöberg (1812-1882), formerly daughter of a clerk in a Swedish government department, became poor and … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Art, Interior Landscapes Tagged With: bourgeoisie, central perspective, Interiors, painting, watercolours

Architectural Spaces in Tony Bevan’s Paintings

May 14, 2017 by Mariabruna Fabrizi 1 Comment

Tony Bevan is a British artist who currently lives and works in London. The architectural spaces in his paintings are described by thickly painted … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Architecture, Art, The Everyday Uncanny Tagged With: infrastructures, Paintings

Herbert Bayer’s Small Architectural Projects (1924)

May 8, 2017 by Mariabruna Fabrizi Leave a Comment

Herbert Bayer was a prolific graphic designer and typography designer who also worked as a sculptor and a painter and who produced architectural … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Architecture, Art, Representation: Axonometric projection, Territories Tagged With: bauhaus, drawings, kiosk

Forgotten Corners, by Andrew G. Fisher

April 28, 2017 by Mariabruna Fabrizi Leave a Comment

Andrew G. Fisher is an artist who opens a constant relationship between two media, photography and illustration. Time is frozen in black and white … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Art, Territories, When Photography Catches Time Tagged With: abstaction, Black and White, corners, lines, photography

A Symmetry, by Peter Judson

April 27, 2017 by Fosco Lucarelli Leave a Comment

Peter Judson, an illustrator and designer whose work we appreciate a lot and who was already featured in Socks in 2014, is back with a new series … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Art Tagged With: colour, Paintings, simmetry

A Portrait of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt’s Kosmos (1845-62)

April 17, 2017 by Fosco Lucarelli Leave a Comment

Alexander von Humboldt (1769-1859) was a German geographer, explorer and naturalist who traveled extensively to Latin America and put the basis for a … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Culture, Technology, Territories Tagged With: atlas, cosmos, current, nature, universe, world

Wucius Wong’s Principles of Three-Dimensional Design (1976)

April 13, 2017 by Fosco Lucarelli Leave a Comment

In Principles of Three-Dimensional Design, 1976, (an obvious companion to Principles of Two-Dimensional Design), Wucius Wong offers a thorough … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Art Tagged With: Design, models, three-dimensional design

Axonometric Projections as a Project: Drawings by Alberto Sartoris

April 6, 2017 by Mariabruna Fabrizi 1 Comment

A relevant figure in the Rationalist movement, Italian-Swiss architect Alberto Sartoris (1901-1998) represented most of his projects in black and … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Architecture, Representation: Axonometric projection Tagged With: colors, drawings, modern movement, planes, rationalism

Hartmut Böhm’s Sistematic Principles and Magnetic Fields

March 22, 2017 by Fosco Lucarelli Leave a Comment

Hartmut Böhm is a German artist whose work spans four decades and who joined avant-garde artistic movements such as Neue Tendenzen, a German approach … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Art Tagged With: geometry, kinetic art, magnetic field, mathematics, op art, structure

“He Left at Least One Sentence Standing Whole” and Other Works by Cristiana Couceiro

March 19, 2017 by Mariabruna Fabrizi 1 Comment

Cristiana Couceiro is a Portuguese illustrator and graphic designer who currently lives in Lisbon. Her works mostly feature colorful collages based on … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Art Tagged With: colors, compositions, graphic design

A Tough Exercise in Simplicity: Vaccaro’s Kindergarten in Piacenza.

March 7, 2017 by Mariabruna Fabrizi Leave a Comment

This small kindergarten, made by only two classrooms, is located on the outskirts of Piacenza in Italy and was designed by Giuseppe Vaccaro starting … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Architecture Tagged With: circle, composition, ina-casa, kindergarten

Early Digital, Unintentional Collages: Fireflies by William Larson

February 23, 2017 by Mariabruna Fabrizi 2 Comments

William Larson is an American photographer who continuously experimented with different media in order to produce meaningful works and question the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Art, Media, Technology, When Photography Catches Time Tagged With: Collage, concrete poetry, digital, fax, media

“Visual Induction”: Works by Franco Grignani

February 21, 2017 by Mariabruna Fabrizi Leave a Comment

Franco Grignani was a hugely influential graphic designer and artistic director who also experimented with photography and painting. Born in Pieve … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Art Tagged With: advertising, geometry, gestalt, graphic design, perception, repetition

Constructing Abstraction. Pablo Picasso’s Constellation Drawings (1924)

February 13, 2017 by Mariabruna Fabrizi 3 Comments

The Constellations drawings are a series of sketches by Pablo Picasso drawn on sixteen pages of a notebook in 1924. For these small drawings in black … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Art, Fields Tagged With: Black and White, drawings, ink, sketches

The Inner Rooms of Kate Shepherd

February 6, 2017 by Fosco Lucarelli 1 Comment

Kate Shepherd is a visual artist who lives and works in New York City. Her paintings, prints, and silkscreens evoke Josef Albers, minimalism and … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Architecture, Art Tagged With: formalism, lines, minimalism, perspective

Matter, Structure and Form of Life: Der Fels ist mein Haus, by Werner Blaser (1976)

February 4, 2017 by Fosco Lucarelli 2 Comments

In “Der Fels ist mein Haus = La rocher est ma demeure = The rock is my home", Werner Blaser analyses Swiss vernacular stone architecture. The … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Architecture, Territories Tagged With: stone, vernacular architecture

Archetypes and Free Plan: Orinda House by Charles W. Moore

January 29, 2017 by Mariabruna Fabrizi Leave a Comment

Orinda House, also known as "Moore House" is located in a valley behind San Francisco,  was designed by architect Charles W. Moore for himself and … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Architecture, Dysfunctional Plans Tagged With: archetype, House, interior/exterior

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