Photographs taken by members of team iand; with thanks federico babina, an Italian graphic designer and artist, has a passion for building design, and his series on architect’s visages, which are inspired by and jailed in their own architectural achievements, finds an expressionist portrayal of this passion. Federico Babina plays with the signature structures and elements thereof of 33 well recognized architects of the 20th and 21st century, to illustrate their visages. This is an expression of the fact that “the geometry of architecture can reveal unexpected and surprising forms,” where an eye, a mouth, or a facial profile can be read between the structures of a building. Babina’s work is an attempt to illustrate this concept. “each architect is its architecture,” says federico, whose artistic representation is called “archiportrait.” This is a fun exercise that entices the onlooker to break down and dissect the features (eyes, nose, lips, wrinkles, facial lines), in order to discover the hidden projects of some of the most well-known protagonists of contemporary architecture. The purpose of giving his graphically illustrated portraits an architectural silhouette is to demonstrate the likeness, personality, and even the mood of the protagonist through his aesthetic; to summarize and photograph in one image the architect and his work; a metaphor for architecture, in which every small detail is an essential component of the whole mosaic. Federico has not communicated with the architects in the lead up to nor in the aftermath of this endeavor. He never follows through. Because of the designer’s interest in architecture, the majority of his series are focused on architectural topics. These include archicine, which examines architecture depicted in films; archist, which examines artists’ thoughts on architecture; archiset, which examines rooms featured in classic films; and the newly revealed archimachine, which uses architecture as a metaphor for the center of society. federico employs basic geometry juxtaposed without the illusions of perspective in the series on archiportrait. This allows for various parts to be layered, rendered translucent, or pierce one another while yet maintaining their spatial connections. He creates an expressive and allusive abstraction in which he merges planar structures with three-dimensional forms to generate a type of metaphysical expression. In this way, he achieves a kind of expression that is both abstract and allusive. “to achieve a satisfactory result for the representation of architects was like doing an architectural project,” he muses; “the hardest part of each image was to decide on a theme, set image to illustration, and take the real or reinterpreted items and compose them in a balanced set,” he concludes. “the hardest part of each image was to decide on a theme, set image to illustration, and take the real or reinterpreted items and compose them in a balanced set.” A deviation from the usual, in which the mother of all arts is often included in otherwise important conversations, may be found here in the form of an approach that is lighthearted while without being disrespectful toward a serious topic such as architecture. Please visit globalhop.indiaartndesign.com in order to see the photographs.
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