These drawings are transfigurations of existing cities. They are part of a still open series started at the end of 2019, in which I try to improve some small imaginative experiments from my university days, when my obsession for the detail...
Read MoreThese drawings are transfigurations of existing cities. They are part of a still open series started at the end of 2019, in which I try to improve some small imaginative experiments from my university days, when my obsession for the detail started.
A personal trend towards minimalism, and a certain impatience with post-processing contemporary operations led me to progressively decrease the palette of tools, which soon has became just a pencil for the preliminary stroke and a standard ink pen for the final tracing and shadows, with the aim of creating a materially poor illustration but at the same time extremely elaborated, which finds inspiration in the chiaroscuro contrasts of the architectural engravings and ancient manuals of natural sciences, for which I have always had a fascination.
Thus the unconscious but constant reflections on the passage of time, mixed with a multitude of visual references led me to re-imagine the greatest cities of the past, in a metaphorical exotic journey that, starting from the past, tries to cast a glance just as far in the time to come.
The result is an ambivalent image: if at first glance it convey a sort of unscratche monumentality, up it reveal a maze of spaces in light and shade, of additions and subtractions, which tell of a very long transformation perhaps destined to never end.
