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Fausto Melotti, Weightless Constructions (1960’s – 1980’s)

October 8, 2018 by Fosco Lucarelli Leave a Comment

“A score of weightless ideograms like water insects that seem to whirl on a brass structure screened by gauze thread”. Italo Calvino, Gli Effimeri. … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Architecture, Art Tagged With: abstraction, surrealism, wire

An Immaterial Drawing in Space: Alberto Giacometti’s The Palace at 4 a.m. (1933)

October 22, 2017 by Fosco Lucarelli 2 Comments

A 1933 sculpture by Alberto Giacometti, The Palace at 4 a.m. relates to "a period of six months passed in the presence of a woman who, concentrating … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Architecture, Art Tagged With: scaffolding, sculpture, skeletons, stage, surrealism

The Mechanical-Architectural World of Stijn Jonckheere

January 16, 2017 by Fosco Lucarelli 5 Comments

Stijn Jonckheere, a Belgian self-titled "experimental architect", works on the brink of architecture, illustration and graphic design. His working … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Architecture, Art, Representation: Axonometric projection Tagged With: architectural representation, surrealism, technical drawings

Suburban Mystique: Bic Drawings by Kevin Lucbert

February 11, 2015 by Fosco Lucarelli Leave a Comment

Kevin Lucbert (Paris, 1985) is a young illustrator who got a diploma in 2008 at the École Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs (Ensad) in Paris … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Representation: Axonometric projection Tagged With: biro, drawings, naïf, surrealism

Madelon Vriesendorp’s Manhattan Project

February 2, 2015 by Fosco Lucarelli 4 Comments

«These works weren't created to commission!», (Vriesendorp) comments smiling, almost hesitantly in Basel. They «were created as the result of an … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Architecture, Art, Culture, Territories Tagged With: dalì, delirious new york, drawings, flagrant delit, manhattan, oma, Paintings, rem koolhaas, surrealism

Paul Kirchner’s The Bus (1978)

October 27, 2014 by Fosco Lucarelli 1 Comment

Paul Kirchner's comic strip 'The Bus' was published in 1978 and appeared regularly on Heavy Metal Magazine for seven years. In every strip the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Art, Culture, Territories Tagged With: bombo lumper ffffound comics paper, comic strip, drawings, perception, surreal, surrealism

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