'Il catalogo delle nuvole nella stessa luca e a Siena'; an architectural drawing related to the EUR Congress Centre, Rome, 2016 by Massimiliano Fuksas
Architectural Drawing
2016
2016
Artist/Maker |
This is an architectural drawing, more specifically a painting by an architect, Massimiliano Fuksas, showing a group of clouds which relates to Fuksas’s design for the EUR Congress Centre, Rome.
This tall painting shows a stack of clouds set against a sky background which graduates from a middle blue at the bottom, through white to a dark blue at the top. Ground level, at the extreme bottom, are black lines with, presumably, the sun on the right as a red mark. The clouds are marked in the manner of architectural sections, with lines across them with letters A-A, B-B, etc. making reference to the Novola, the Cloud, a large cloud-like steel structure inside Fuksas’s EUR Congress Centre, Rome containing an auditorium.
Fuksas, in a letter to the V&A [17 May 2016], writes of the painting:
It represents a cloud: the immateriality, my starting vision for the new Eur Congress Centre than now everybody here calls the Nuvola.
Before every project for me there’s a painting. This doesn’t mean that every painting becomes a project necessarily, nor that every project becomes a painting.
It is the graphic transposition of an emotion or a feeling, it is a vision. It’s the idea becoming a gesture.
Massimiliano Fuksas (b. 1944) is an architect with an international reputation. With his wife Doriana Fuksas he runs Studio Fuksas in Rome, his native city. He is known for such works as the large Trade Fair Building, Milan (2005), the Zenith Music Hall, Strasbourg (completed 2008), the National Archives of France (2013) and a range of products including cutlery for Alessi. Massimiliano says that he both an architect and artist, a circumstance he recognized when in 1965 he worked in the Archigram office in London. Subsequently, he worked in the Copenhagen offices of Henny Larson and Jorn Utzon before graduating and setting up his own practice.
This tall painting shows a stack of clouds set against a sky background which graduates from a middle blue at the bottom, through white to a dark blue at the top. Ground level, at the extreme bottom, are black lines with, presumably, the sun on the right as a red mark. The clouds are marked in the manner of architectural sections, with lines across them with letters A-A, B-B, etc. making reference to the Novola, the Cloud, a large cloud-like steel structure inside Fuksas’s EUR Congress Centre, Rome containing an auditorium.
Fuksas, in a letter to the V&A [17 May 2016], writes of the painting:
It represents a cloud: the immateriality, my starting vision for the new Eur Congress Centre than now everybody here calls the Nuvola.
Before every project for me there’s a painting. This doesn’t mean that every painting becomes a project necessarily, nor that every project becomes a painting.
It is the graphic transposition of an emotion or a feeling, it is a vision. It’s the idea becoming a gesture.
Massimiliano Fuksas (b. 1944) is an architect with an international reputation. With his wife Doriana Fuksas he runs Studio Fuksas in Rome, his native city. He is known for such works as the large Trade Fair Building, Milan (2005), the Zenith Music Hall, Strasbourg (completed 2008), the National Archives of France (2013) and a range of products including cutlery for Alessi. Massimiliano says that he both an architect and artist, a circumstance he recognized when in 1965 he worked in the Archigram office in London. Subsequently, he worked in the Copenhagen offices of Henny Larson and Jorn Utzon before graduating and setting up his own practice.
Object details
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Parts | This object consists of 2 parts.
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Title | 'Il catalogo delle nuvole nella stessa luca e a Siena'; an architectural drawing related to the EUR Congress Centre, Rome, 2016 by Massimiliano Fuksas (assigned by artist) |
Materials and techniques | Acrylic and pencil with added masking tape on acetate film mounted between two Perspex sheets |
Brief description | 'Il catalogo delle nuvole nella stessa luca e a Siena'; an architectural drawing related to the EUR Congress Centre, Rome, 2016 by Massimiliano Fuksas |
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Marks and inscriptions | 2016 – Maggio - Il catalogo delle nuvole / nella stessa luca e a Siena
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Credit line | Given by Massimiliano Fuksas |
Summary | This is an architectural drawing, more specifically a painting by an architect, Massimiliano Fuksas, showing a group of clouds which relates to Fuksas’s design for the EUR Congress Centre, Rome. This tall painting shows a stack of clouds set against a sky background which graduates from a middle blue at the bottom, through white to a dark blue at the top. Ground level, at the extreme bottom, are black lines with, presumably, the sun on the right as a red mark. The clouds are marked in the manner of architectural sections, with lines across them with letters A-A, B-B, etc. making reference to the Novola, the Cloud, a large cloud-like steel structure inside Fuksas’s EUR Congress Centre, Rome containing an auditorium. Fuksas, in a letter to the V&A [17 May 2016], writes of the painting: It represents a cloud: the immateriality, my starting vision for the new Eur Congress Centre than now everybody here calls the Nuvola. Before every project for me there’s a painting. This doesn’t mean that every painting becomes a project necessarily, nor that every project becomes a painting. It is the graphic transposition of an emotion or a feeling, it is a vision. It’s the idea becoming a gesture. Massimiliano Fuksas (b. 1944) is an architect with an international reputation. With his wife Doriana Fuksas he runs Studio Fuksas in Rome, his native city. He is known for such works as the large Trade Fair Building, Milan (2005), the Zenith Music Hall, Strasbourg (completed 2008), the National Archives of France (2013) and a range of products including cutlery for Alessi. Massimiliano says that he both an architect and artist, a circumstance he recognized when in 1965 he worked in the Archigram office in London. Subsequently, he worked in the Copenhagen offices of Henny Larson and Jorn Utzon before graduating and setting up his own practice. |
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Accession number | CD.50-2016 |
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Record created | May 24, 2016 |
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