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Atemporality at Work *

October 7, 2012 by Fosco Lucarelli 1 Comment

* Kazys Varnelis couldn’t possibly better resume this series of collage drawings recently featured on Archive of Affinities:

“Chief among these is that, on the one hand, these plans demonstrate a forced relationship between unlike elements and, on the other, these plans lack any trace of rupture or artifacts of their collision. This is a paradoxical inversion of postmodern design, in which elements would be chosen for their contextual nature, but when collided would retain traces of their violent encounter while also announcing their inability to ever produced a whole.

In other words, what we see is atemporality at work, not a postmodern revival.”

From: varnelis.net

Update 2012/10/08: the author of the collages is in fact Andrew Kovacs, the same guy running Archive Of Affinities.

Plan Of Nine Circles

Plan For A 9 Square Grid

Plan For A Museum

Plan With Four Attachments

Plan For A Prison

Plan For A Building With A Courtyard

Plan For A Theater

Plan For Unwilling Symmetry

Plan For A House

Plan Of Two Halves

Plan For A Park

Plan For An Office Building

Plan For A Hotel

Plan For A Series Of Rooms

Plan For A Culture Palace

Plan For A Linear Building

Plan From Fat To Thin

Elevation For A Building In The Form Of A Cabinet Of Curiosities

Elevation For A Ziggurat

Elevation For A Hotel

Elevation For A Tower

Elevation For A Building In The Form Of A Display Case

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  1. shlomo gendler says

    October 17, 2012 at 12:33 pm

    fatastic!!!!

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