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**Revealing the Art World's Hidden Wonders 💎: A Journey Beyond the Obvious** Embarking on a Quest for Unique Perspectives in Architectural Wonders. In today’s feature, we're venturing into the enthralling domain where art transcends its visible boundaries. This journey revolves around how a shift in perspective can alter our comprehension of art, focusing on architectural masterpieces and the innovative works of Stefano Perego. 🌟 Artist Spotlight: Introducing Stefano Perego, a gifted photographer in architecture and interior design, celebrated for his insightful examination of various architectural epochs and styles. His photographic journeys span from the Soviet edifices of Georgia to the Modernist vistas of Belgrade, bringing to light the inherent artistic essence and historical context of Brutalist architecture. Today, we're featuring his striking capture of the Doorkijkkerk (See-through church) in Borgloon, Belgium. 📚 Artistic Exploration: Perspective has been a pivotal element in art history, evolving dramatically from Byzantine artistry to the Renaissance and beyond. It serves as a tool for artists to create depth and space illusions, enhancing realism and viewer immersion. In the modern art scene, visionaries like Stefano Perego employ perspective not just for spatial depiction but also as a means to question our reality perception, urging us to delve deeper than the apparent. 🧐 Curatorial Insights: From my curatorial vantage point, I've been consistently struck by how altering one's perspective can shift the understanding of an art piece. By engaging with art from varied viewpoints and contextual backgrounds, we unearth new layers of meaning, appreciating the intricacies inherent in artistic creation. This readiness to explore is essential for curators, artists, and art aficionados alike. 💫 Artistic Phenomenon: A fascinating aspect of the Doorkijkkerk (See-through church), crafted from 100 layers of weathered steel by architects Pieterjan Gijs and Arnout Van Vaerenbergh, is its interplay with perspective. This architectural marvel challenges viewers to find significance in the voids it creates. As one peers through its steel layers, the structure ebbs and flows into visibility, symbolising the transient essence of art and existence itself. www.heiartgallery.com

Born in the post-war period in the United Kingdom, the Brutalism movement was first met with skepticism but has found a new appreciation in the last decade, capturing the imagination of new designers fascinated with the interplay between striking geometric shapes and the exposed raw materials in which they are rendered. From Britain, the movement spread throughout Europe, Southeast Asia, and Africa, gathering different variations influenced by the cultural and socio-economic status of each area. In this article, we delve into the particularities that define Italy's contribution to the Brutalist movement, exploring the style through the lens of Roberto Conte and Stefano Perego. The two photographers have also published a photographic essay on the subject, taking the form of a book titled “Brutalist Italy: Concrete Architecture from the Alps to the Mediterranean Sea”. In the post-war years, Europe was in search of a new identity, based less on enthusiasm and trust in technological innovations, and instead challenging architecture’s role in society. The change in ideology attempted to address the landscape of destruction that followed two consequent world wars, moving to disassociate architecture from politics and assume a more socially conscientious role. The response was a need to scale down and create functionally sound buildings with a minimum of materials or decorations, thus favoring exposed materials and simple shapes.

Part 2 Bigness "passer" in French it means "pass" in English the word Passages came from Paris! One of my teacher which graduated from Paris once said to me :There are passages in the streets of Paris, as you walk on the street you see a covered area with shops like a concavity. "A history of the Covered Passages of Paris Largely dating back to the 18th and 19th-centuries, the covered passages of Paris were constructed so as to serve as shopping arcades filled with bookstores, independent boutiques, and eateries." (www.solosophie.com) 5 years ago I heard phrase Bigness for the first time in my life ,from one of my favorite professor his a good architect he talked about the Koolhaas and his article and his projects . It was first time in my life I saw someone talked about the great scale just happening in the big shopping mall or library or museum with exactly definition I brought in my last post about this phenomenon. Something like "Bigness is where architecture becomes both most and least architectural: most because of the enormity of the object; least through the loss of autonomy – it becomes instrument of other forces, it depends." For example this kind of thought about interior will give us big area which we can design the temporary gallery on it or provisional bookshelves, or we're change the face of particular space in shopping mall every season ,the visitors come next year they will be not even recognize that area it's a same they met last year ! But there is a lot of changed we should consider of , What exactly we experience in these places? Negin Dezfouli July 2023

Learn Architecture like never before from most engaging online courses at Eduwik.com Art Conservation and Restoration Read Full Article>https://ow.ly/IqLs50QmHxa There are numerous works of art here, and they are all very different! How does the Museum keep track of them all? That is an important question! We can just scrape the surface here. #interiordesign #architects #geometry #architect #design

LE PALAIS INTÉRIEUR, EL BADIÂ @Galerie127, Marrackech 29.4.23 - 30.6.23 This series of photographs of the Baadi Palace in Marrakesh – all of them taken as double exposures - forms part of a photographic body of work featuring Moroccan architecture and alleyways. In these photographs Sandrine Rousseau derives particular inspiration from the graphic details of the architecture, using them as a vehicle to capture the feeling and energy of these places. If, to begin with, her progressively more abstract images reveal the spirit of the place through their lines and geometric volumes - the presence of curves and organic forms become the expression of the photographer’s more intimate interior world. The more the images evolve towards abstraction, the more they get to the essence of what is being photographed. They are perceived as an ‘encounter’ between the soul of a place and that of the photographer at a specific moment in time. In her intuitive assembly of shapes, textures, colour and light, Sandrine Rousseau’s images seeks to attain equilibrium. The sensory process involved makes her question our capacity to feel and recognize harmony. The corpus includes 4 séries de 9 photographs printed on Hahnemühle mat cotton rag paper. Below serie1

I believe I’ve touched on the subject of façadism in an earlier LinkedIn missive, but spotting a new example recently brings me round to the subject again. Developers often go to considerable lengths to preserve the frontage of a building. Often this is because the original façade is listed and its preservation is important – nay, required – so that any redevelopment is “in keeping” with the surrounding area. But completely gutting a structure while preserving its ‘face’ is an activity which finds few friends among those who care for a building’s story. In his book ‘The Creeping Plague Of Ghastly Façadism’, The Gentle Author writes: “Sticking a new shed inside the husk of a former edifice is a pitiful way to go about things. It is not worthy of the term architecture. “If walls could speak, these façades would tell tales of bad compromises and angry developers who, dissatisfied with the meagre notion of repair and reuse, are driven solely by remorseless greed.” Quite. I was in Porto last month and saw what has to be the worst example of façadism I think I've ever seen, outdoing a current development going up on Piccadilly in London, which prior to my trip to the Iberian Peninsula held that dubious accolade. I’ve no idea what’s behind the thinking of the developer in this example, or whether it's a planning thing – you see very few ‘modern’ buildings in Portugal’s second city – but at this stage of the project the situation looks pretty grim. If anyone has any thoughts on façadism, especially if you think positively about it, feel free to leave a comment. #freelancewriting #photography #builtenvironment #architecture #buildings #preservation #façade #façadism #Porto #Portugal