The Sky in a Room
domestic landscape and synthetic fine arts
Exhibition catalogue | Reprographie EPFL | Nicola Braghieri and Filippo Fanciotti | 2023
Content
LAPIS presents an operational research method focused on a technical deconstruction of the work of art as a tool for reading architectural space and built form in their historical and constructive dimension. From the domestic interior seen through the eye of the artist painting, it is possible to reconstruct a social history of housing culture and redefine typological elements and topological characters of the European bourgeois home. From the magic realism of everyday life unfolds a genealogy of banal heroism and a phenomenology of domestic space.
The investigation focuses on the definition of a set of elements that constitute reality beyond the canvas: architecture language and spatial relationships, compositional tropes between domestic objects and related viewpoints, resonance between materials and specific atmospheric conditions; all through decoding the painter’s narrative filter, in an operational critique of art history resorting to a scientific approach. The dichotomy between digital transition and analogue continuity emerges as the underlying theme. Architectural representation, constantly redefines itself by its working tools, yet posits a discourse in continuity with the pictorial tradition in search of ‘Truth’, and with the architectural drawing in its speculative and timeless dimension. Authorial verisimilitude is hence achieved through physical and digital model making, rendering (synthèse) and manipulation.
LAPIS presents an operational research method focused on a technical deconstruction of the work of art as a tool for reading architectural space and built form in their historical and constructive dimension. From the domestic interior seen through the eye of the artist painting, it is possible to reconstruct a social history of housing culture and redefine typological elements and topological characters of the European bourgeois home. From the magic realism of everyday life unfolds a genealogy of banal heroism and a phenomenology of domestic space.
The investigation focuses on the definition of a set of elements that constitute reality beyond the canvas: architecture language and spatial relationships, compositional tropes between domestic objects and related viewpoints, resonance between materials and specific atmospheric conditions; all through decoding the painter’s narrative filter, in an operational critique of art history resorting to a scientific approach. The dichotomy between digital transition and analogue continuity emerges as the underlying theme. Architectural representation, constantly redefines itself by its working tools, yet posits a discourse in continuity with the pictorial tradition in search of ‘Truth’, and with the architectural drawing in its speculative and timeless dimension. Authorial verisimilitude is hence achieved through physical and digital model making, rendering (synthèse) and manipulation.
Authors
Nicola Braghieri, Filippo Fanciotti
Contributions
Students de Figuration et Représentation FIRE 2017-2023
Filippo Fanciotti (images et textes)
Nicola Braghieri (textes) Olivier Meystre (images)
Gaëtan Détraz (model)
SAR Archizoom Mediacom, SAVE EPFL
Translations Reda Berrada
Proofreading Emma Larcelet, Reda Berrada
Graphic Design Filippo Fanciotti (graphics) Reda Berrada (editing, layout)
Printing Reprographie EPFL
Contributions
Students de Figuration et Représentation FIRE 2017-2023
Filippo Fanciotti (images et textes)
Nicola Braghieri (textes) Olivier Meystre (images)
Gaëtan Détraz (model)
SAR Archizoom Mediacom, SAVE EPFL
Translations Reda Berrada
Proofreading Emma Larcelet, Reda Berrada
Graphic Design Filippo Fanciotti (graphics) Reda Berrada (editing, layout)
Printing Reprographie EPFL
