Art reverberates in the meeting of souls that fluctuate in everyday life
15 May 2024 | Milan, Italy
Critical text by Elisa Ajelli
Ogni impressione si riserva lungamente
nello obiettivo ove s’imprime
(Leonardo da Vinci, Della Natura, Peso e Moto delle Acque)
Every impression is reserved for a long time
in the target where it is imprinted
(Leonardo da Vinci, On Nature, Weight and Motion of Waters)
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The verb fluctuate is the closest to the representation of contemporary everyday life. We fluctuate, we don't move forward. Floating towards our objective in life, because the synonyms ‘walking’, ‘proceeding’ or ‘heading’ do not conceive of that contemporary levity that leads us to get lost, stop and inconclusively, retrace our steps, or let ourselves be carried away by events, or chase the past and its foundations.Uncertainty fluctuates, the pressure proceeds. The motion of Leonardo's waters defines without ending; the current state of the road instead rests on firm, non-fluctuating foundations.
So how can architectural spaces fluctuate?
Don't let the visitor be fooled: Alec and Franz do not propose solutions to contemporary conflicts based on the deep foundations of refined architectural structures, even an underground bunker. These two artists have long been deconstructing their belief that what lasts over time, such as ancient architecture, immobile witnesses of past civilizations, will calm our anxieties as humans struggling with their own, unrecognizable permanence on Gaia . Alec and Franz made the assumption their own: "complexity is a challenge to the sense of order" ( Rudolf Arnheim, Visual Thought ).
The deconstruction, or the challenge to order, began before their meeting: an established visual artist, internationally acclaimed set designer and director, as well as an attentive fan of fractals. The other, sensitive care professional, with unconditional love for architecture, designed in every detail and brought to the workplace where anyone can benefit from it.
The reverberation of art that they both feel resonating in their daily lives has defined the margins of a collaboration that in Floating Architectural Spaces breaks the mold and seems to tell us: there is nothing wrong with floating in our past, in our history, in every impression that has formed on us and in every small revolution in everyday life, if this makes us feel good.
Perhaps life rests on solid foundations when we accept our experiences, our education and habits. Instead, we make transformations when we give voice to our soul and allow it to dictate to us, and dive into impossible perspectives. Our interior rooms, when illuminated by colored lights, allow us to dialogue with other floating souls, they make us find the courage to consider different languages, the true richness of our human being, and the senses, all of them, are witnesses of this. Finally, therefore, we agree once again with Leonardo da Vinci: " no piece of furniture moves by itself if its members do not force other bodies through it".
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