References
Aldo Rossi – Postmodernism
Aldo Rossi was born on the 3rd of May, 1931. He was an Italian architect and designer who accomplished the unusual feat of achieving international recognition in four distinct areas: theory, drawing, architecture and product design. In his writings Rossi criticized the lack of understanding of the city in current architectural practice. He argued that a city must be studied and valued as something constructed over time. One of his works is “Il teatro del Mondo”, literally “Theater of the World” and it’s best known for being built on a barge.
Alice Pasquini - Street Art
Alice Pasquini was born in Rome in 1980, she is an artist, one of the few active women in the Street Art scene. She works as an illustrator, designer and painter, but she doesn't give up her impulse: the need to paint in the streets and interact with the external environment. For the first time, Street Art in three dimensions for a stupefying experience that will pull viewers inside a painting, blurring the line between illusion and reality. The 3D effect is created by simultaneously photographing the subject, in this case Alice’s artwork painted on different level, with two cameras. Under Layers is an innovative project that unites Alice Pasquini’s street art and the 3D photography of Stefano C. Montesi. The poster installations are also pleasing without glasses, yet when seen with traditional 3D glasses, Alice’s drawings transform into a world that flies out of the wall, blurring the lines between fantasy and reality.
Arnaldo Pomodoro - Abstraction
Arnaldo Pomodoro, is considered one of the most important Italian contemporay sculptors, , with a geometrical shape, with cuts and splits that simbolize the evolution. One of his most known artwork is “La Torre a Spirale”. The tower is outside of Piccolo Teatro Strehler in Milan. It’s a bronze sculpture that represents the becoming and the infinite research of elevating towards the sky.
Domenico Paladino - Transavantgarde
Domenico Paladino was born in Paduli in 1948. He is an italian artist, painter, sculptor and engraver. Paladino realized works using Greek-Romans symbols and ancient technics as the mosaic. He had success with “Collages” inspired by mythological themes; in 1978 the adoption of the oil painting coincides with a cycle of Polymaterial paintings where the abstract figure connects to an object. Paladino had realized sculptures in bronze, wood and limestone “Hortus Conclusus” and “I Dormienti” are two of his works.
Manuel De Rita - Street Art
Manuel De Rita, aka Peeta, is a Venetian street artist who creates murals since 1993. Inspired by the study of industrial design and sculpture, Peeta loves to experiment with mural painting and developed his own 3D pictorial technic expressed in murals painting that emerge from the two-dimensional wall thanks to an interplay of light and shadow. His murals have become a bit 'at a time more and more important in expression level to become works of art themselves.
Renzo Piano - High-Tech
Renzo Piano is an Italian architect best known for his high-tech public spaces, he was born in Genoa on the 14th of September, 1937. Born into a family of builders, Piano graduated from the Polytechnic in Milan in 1964. One of the best Piano's works is The Shard in London, which is the second higher skyscraper in Europe. He has also received numerous important awards and prizes.
He is the leader of a small Interaction Design studio based in Florence, Italy. His work is mainly influenced by art, design and technology, and in recent years his artistic research focuses on experimentation with interactive installations that explore the natural occurrences commonly elusive as solar flares, earthquakes, climate and space missions aiming to create visual experiences developed following paths and sensory perception.
Stefano Boeri
Stefano Boeri is an Italian architect. He is best known for his “Vertical Forest”. In occasion of the Design week in Milan he projected “Radura”, placed in the courtyard of the University in Milan. It is made of four hundred wooden columns set on a large circular stand, which also acts as a collective seat function and is defined as a "space in space", animated by light and sound.
