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Axonometric Realism: “Hortus Conclusus” by Beate Gütschow (2019)

February 23, 2020 by Mariabruna Fabrizi 1 Comment

Beate Gütschow is a German contemporary artist who works primarily through photography. In her work, she analyses the complex and ever-changing … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Architecture, Art, Representation: Axonometric projection, Technology, Territories, When Photography Catches Time Tagged With: axonometric projection, Landscape, photography, Urban

Gareth Damian Martin, Postcards from The Continuous City, 2018

October 13, 2019 by Mariabruna Fabrizi Leave a Comment

The Continuous City is an in-progress photographic series by Gareth Damian Martin. The British artist, game designer and writer explores video game … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Architecture, Art, Cartographies of Reality and Fiction, Interior Landscapes, Media, Technology, Territories, Topics Tagged With: photography, videogame

John Mehegan, Jazz Improvisation (1959-65)

January 9, 2019 by Fosco Lucarelli 2 Comments

Jazz Improvisation is a series of 4 books edited by pianist, composer, lecturer, and critic John Mehegan between 1959 and 1965. Today considered … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Art, Culture, Sounds Tagged With: Collage, covers, graphic design, improvisation, jazz, music, photography

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

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

Embracing Landscapes: “Mimesis” (1972-1973) by Barbara and Michael Leisgen

November 3, 2016 by Mariabruna Fabrizi 1 Comment

Barbara and Michael Leisgen are a couple of German artists working at the intersection between photography, performance art and land-art since the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Art, Body Measuring Space Tagged With: land art, performance, photography

Reinventing Suburban Reality: “Constructed” by Pawel Nolbert

October 24, 2016 by Mariabruna Fabrizi Leave a Comment

"Constructed" is a series of photos by Polish graphic designer, illustrator, and web designer Pawel Nolbert. A selection of the artist's own travel … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Art, Territories Tagged With: Collage, graphic design, photography, Urban

Ordinary Buildings, Reassembled by Oliver Michaels

June 28, 2016 by Mariabruna Fabrizi Leave a Comment

English photographer Oliver Michaels creates images through the composition of different architectural elements as found in specific places. The … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Architecture, Art, Territories Tagged With: Black and White, Collage, photography

Perspective Corrections, by Jan Dibbets (1967-1969)

April 25, 2016 by Fosco Lucarelli Leave a Comment

Between 1967 and 1969, Dutch conceptual artist Jan Dibbets created a series of works, consisting of photographs of walls, floors and lawns, titled … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Art, Territories Tagged With: land art, photography

Constructing a False Reality: Chris Engman’s Photographs

December 3, 2015 by Mariabruna Fabrizi Leave a Comment

Chris Engman is a photographer who creates installations and constructions in the landscape and inside preexisting architecture and then captures them … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Art, Territories Tagged With: installation, Landscape, photography

When Geometry Comes to Life: “Somnium” by Laurent Millet (2014)

November 12, 2015 by Mariabruna Fabrizi Leave a Comment

Laurent Millet is a French artist, whose work we already wrote about, who combines sculpture and drawing with the medium of photography. His 2014 … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Art Tagged With: model, photography

Absence of Style: Lewis Baltz and the New Topographics

October 16, 2015 by Fosco Lucarelli 5 Comments

The exhibition "New Topographics: Photographs of a Man-Altered Landscape" represented a paradigm shift in the history of photography. Nine then young … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Art, Culture Tagged With: bleakness, new topographics, photography

About the Domestic Common: Ion Zupcu’s American Homes (2012)

June 16, 2015 by Fosco Lucarelli Leave a Comment

Most people take images of other people to preserve memories; I photograph objects to preserve my memories. Ion Zupcu, photographer, was born in … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Architecture, Art, Culture Tagged With: abstraction, domestic, photography

‘Things are Queer’ by Duane Michals (1973)

April 23, 2015 by Mariabruna Fabrizi 3 Comments

This 1973 series of nine photographs by Duane Michals (1932, -) is a short narrative piece with a twist at each step, a discovery of an unexpected … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Art, Culture, When Photography Catches Time Tagged With: photography

“Je croyais voir un piège”, by Laurent Millet (2012)

September 5, 2014 by Fosco Lucarelli Leave a Comment

Je croyais voir un piège ("I thought I saw a trap") is a 2012 set of photographs and sculptures by French artist Laurent Millet, exhibited at … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Architecture, Art Tagged With: hunting, nature, photography

Atlas Photographique de la Lune (1899)

October 20, 2013 by Fosco Lucarelli Leave a Comment

This moon atlas was published by L'Observatoire de Paris in 1899 and edited by Maurice (Moritz) Loewy. The following are the Cover, the Title Page … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Technology, Territories Tagged With: land art, past futures, photography, Technology

Hans Hollein’s Alles Ist Architektur (1968)

August 13, 2013 by Fosco Lucarelli 60 Comments

“Everything is architecture“, Hans Hollein announced in the 1968 (1/2) edition of the “Bau“ journal. As correctly explained by Ethel Baraona, he was … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Architecture, Art, Technology Tagged With: Architecture, Art, form of form, illustrations, literature, magazines, past futures, people, photography, psychogeographies, review, satire, social, Technology, urban chronicles, virtual chronicles, visions, world weird web

About Metropolis

August 15, 2012 by Fosco Lucarelli 1 Comment

Metropolis is probably the film that set a standard for 20th century science fiction. The futuristic urban dystopia depicted by Austrian director … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Architecture, Art, Culture, Technology Tagged With: Architecture, Art, electronic arts, literature, magazines, movies, past futures, photography, politics, psychogeographies, social, Technology, urban chronicles, virtual chronicles, visions, world weird web

dOCUMENTA 13: Bomb Ponds, by Vandy Rattana

August 3, 2012 by Fosco Lucarelli 1 Comment

"There is a Khmer proverb that says: you can hear something a thousand times and not know it, yet if you see it with your eyes just once, you know." … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Art, Culture, Territories Tagged With: past futures, photography, politics, psychogeographies, social

Duga-3, a Giant Abandoned Radio Structure Within the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone

July 10, 2012 by Fosco Lucarelli 2 Comments

Just a few miles away from the exploded nuclear power plant of Chernobyl, stands a huge Soviet abandoned rectangular antenna made by an array of … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Architecture, Technology, Territories Tagged With: Architecture, electronic arts, form of form, land art, past futures, photography, politics, psychogeographies, Technology, visions, world weird itself, world weird web

Tropicomania: “The Social Life of Plants” at Betonsalon, Paris

April 27, 2012 by Fosco Lucarelli Leave a Comment

This exhibition at the Betonsalon Art Center in Paris tries to address the socio-economic, cultural and political implications behind the worldwide … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Art, Cartographies of Reality and Fiction, Culture, Territories Tagged With: Art, maps, past futures, photography, psychogeographies, social, Technology, world weird web

Miracle at the Vistula, by Simone de Iacobis

March 14, 2012 by Fosco Lucarelli 1 Comment

Our friend and school colleague Simone de Iacobis lives and works in Poland as an architect and photographer. Miracle at the Vistula is his recent … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Architecture, Cartographies of Reality and Fiction, Technology, Territories Tagged With: Architecture, maps, past futures, photography, politics, Technology, urban chronicles, world weird web

Studio Magazine features “Tower of Joy”, by Leopold Lambert

November 17, 2011 by Fosco Lucarelli Leave a Comment

Check out this interesting episode in digital and on paper architectural zines world: Studio Magazine. Last issue (01), entitled [from] CRISIS … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Architecture, Art, Culture Tagged With: Architecture, illustrations, industrial design, literature, magazines, photography

Findings on Elasticity, Lars Müller Publishers

November 16, 2011 by Fosco Lucarelli Leave a Comment

208 pp / 200 x 270 mm / paperback / english publisher: Lars Müller Publishers author: Hester Aardse, Astrid van Baalen year: 2010 collaborator: … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Architecture, Art, Culture, Media Tagged With: Architecture, Art, literature, magazines, photography, world weird web

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