- ITALO CALVINO INVISIBLE CITIES EXCERPT FULL
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Invisible Cities is a generative pilgrimage that expresses a lifelong desire to coalesce Ramaswamy’s specific artistic and cultural aesthetic as a Bharatanatyam artist with the dynamic universe of other embodied traditions and communities.
ITALO CALVINO INVISIBLE CITIES EXCERPT FULL
Both haunting and hopeful, ethereal and full of depth, Mourad’s visual architectures provide a dynamic and unpredictable dimension to the artists’ examination of the way the built environment and human life interact. Mourad employs his technique of live drawing and animation, developing a collaboration in which art, music and movement harmonize with one another. These sculptures where exhibited at Commune.Invisible Cities extends beyond the kinetic realm with live, interactive projections created by internationally renowned artist Kevork Mourad. Many are the cities like Phyllis, which elude the gaze of all, except the man who catches them by surprise.” Millions of eyes look up at windows, bridges, capers, and they might be scanning a blank page. Your footsteps follow not what is outside the eyes, but what is within, buried, erased. Phyllis is a space in which routes are drawn between points suspended in the void: the shortest way to reach that certain merchant’s tent, avoiding that certain creditor’s window. Like all of Phyllis’s inhabitants, you follow zigzag lines from one street to another, you distinguish the patches of sunlight from the patches of shade, a door here, a stairway there, a bench where you can put down your basket, a hole where your foot stumbles if you are not careful.
ITALO CALVINO INVISIBLE CITIES EXCERPT WINDOWS
Soon the city fades before your eyes, the rose windows are expunged, the statues on the corbels, the domes.
Here is an excerpt from Calvino’s description of the city: Phyllis i also based on its namesake city. There are three hypotheses about the inhabitants of Baucis: that they hate the earth that they respect it so much they avoid all contact that they love it as it was before they existed and with spyglasses and telescopes aimed downward they never tire of examining it, leaf by leaf, stone by stone, ant by ant, contemplating with fascination their own absence.” Suspended in the void: Nothing of the city touches the earth except those long flamingo legs on which it rests and, when the days are sunny, a pierced, angular shadow that falls on the foliage. On the ground the inhabitants rarely show themselves: having already everything they need up there, they prefer not to come down.
The slender stilts that rise from the ground at a great distance from one another and are lost above the clouds support the city. “After a seven days’ march through woodland, the traveller directed toward Baucis cannot see the city and yet he has arrived. The city is described by Calvino as follows They are made of 8mm thick mild steel, cut, bent, bolted or slotted together.īaucis is based on its namesake. The first two shown here are distillations of two cities, Baucis and Phyllis.
ITALO CALVINO INVISIBLE CITIES EXCERPT SERIES
This series of sculptures were inspired by Calvino’s text. These are not only cities of stone and steel, but also of ideas. Physical portrayal is blurred with metaphor, emotion, aspirations and failings. The cities are thought experiments in which the laws of physics are unravelled and the limitations of material reality are ignored. These are beguiling places, where things are never as they seem. The accounts are divided into eleven groups: Cities and Memory, Cities and Desire, Cities and Signs, Thin Cities, Trading Cities, Cities and Eyes, Cities and Names, Cities and the Dead, Cities and the Sky, Continuous Cities, and Hidden Cities The tale intersperses the dialogue between Polo and Khan with descriptions of 55 cities. The text suspends disbelief and opens the reader’s imagination to the potentiality of these fantastical places. They are described in a magical, poetic manner, sometimes childlike, sometimes melancholy. The cities are fantastical in both construction and concept. In the course of their discussions, Polo describes a series of metropolises, each of which bears a woman’s name. Italo Calvino’s book Invisible Cities is an account of a fictional conversation between the Mongol emperor Kublai Khan and the Venetian explorer, Marco Polo.
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