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Starting in 1814, when he was already 55, Japanese artist Hokusai Katsushika published over 4000 small drawings on extremely varied subjects. The 15 volumes, each one including sixty leaflets, are called “Hokusai’s Manga” The term “manga” doesn’t refer to the kind of narrative format we all know … Read More
German-born artist Emma Stibbon did her studies in England, where she currently works. Her production is mostly composed of monochrome drawings on paper, often in large-scale formats. The works take inspiration from the North-European romantic tradition of landscape views, but Stibbon’s natural and built subjects slowly reveal the heavy traces of human intervention on the environment. Landscape is … Read More
“A score of weightless ideograms like water insects that seem to whirl on a brass structure screened by gauze thread”. Italo Calvino, Gli Effimeri. (Italian original at the end of the post). An artist that worked with a wide variety of media (ceramic, plaster, metal wire, drawings, and words), Fausto Melotti was an influential figure … Read More
“The Museum Inside The Telephone Network” was a 1991 exhibition that was not based upon any physical space. The show was only accessible to home users through networked communication devices such as the telephone, the fax, and computer networking, this latter being obviously very limited at the time. The show, organized by the Project InterCommunication … Read More
In his magnum opus on light, projections, and astronomy, Ars Magna Lucis Et Umbrae (“the Great Art of Light and Shadows,” polymath Jesuit scholar and inventor Athanasius Kircher (1601-1680) describes several spaces of his invention lying between an optical device and an architectural interior through a series of engravings. One among them is a camera obscura (dark room) whose … Read More
We already featured Irena, a Belgrade-based artist, and architect, some time ago for a series ofillustrations featured in architecture magazine Soiled. Since we love her work, we’ll publish here one of her personal projects, titled 100 Houses. A divertissement about spatial concepts, 100 Houses was a daily endeavor manifested on the artist’s tumblr irenagajic.tumblr.com/ I started this project … Read More
Georg Andreas Böckler, a German architect and engineer, wrote the books Theatrum Machinarum Novum (1661) and Architectura Curiosa Nova (1664). Mostly dedicated to hydraulics for fountains, water-jets and garden fountains, Architectura Curiosa Nova also includes designs for grottoes and elaborated geometries for gardens (based upon triangles, squares, repetitive patterns, labyrinthine paths). It is not clear whether the gardens were invented or … Read More
Written between 1519 and 1520, Dell’arte della guerra (The Art of War) was the only historical-political essay published by Niccolò Machiavelli during his lifetime, but it was arguably the lesser known compared to The Prince and the Discourses on Livy. In seven books, the author treats themes of military theory and strategy (based on training, discipline, and … Read More
Jesùs Perea is a Spanish visual artist with a background in graphic design and illustration and extensive production of abstract prints and frequent excursions in the figurative realm. His work is an exploration of different compositions ranging from intersecting and rotating geometric forms to colorful quasi-architectural structures. A parallel research is made in graphic techniques: … Read More
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