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SUMMARY:The Sky in a Room\, domestic landscape and synthetic fine arts / L
 APIS
DTSTART:20231120T180000
DTEND:20231208T120000
DTSTAMP:20260916T082320Z
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CATEGORIES:Exhibitions
DESCRIPTION:LAPIS presents an operational research method focused on a tec
 hnical deconstruction of the work of art as a tool for reading architectur
 al space and built form in their historical and constructive dimension. Fr
 om the domestic interior seen through the eye of the artist painting\, it 
 is possible to reconstruct a social history of housing culture and redefin
 e typological elements and topological characters of the European bourgeoi
 s home. From the magic realism of everyday life unfolds a genealogy of ban
 al heroism and a phenomenology of domestic space.\nThe investigation focus
 es on the definition of a set of elements that constitute reality beyond t
 he canvas: architecture language and spatial relationships\, compositional
  tropes between domestic objects and related viewpoints\, resonance betwee
 n 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 transiti
 on and analogue continuity emerges as the underlying theme. Architectural 
 representation\, constantly redefines itself by its working tools\, yet po
 sits a discourse in continuity with the pictorial tradition in search of 
 ‘Truth’\, and with the architectural drawing in its speculative and ti
 meless dimension. Authorial verisimilitude is hence achieved through physi
 cal and digital model making\, rendering (synthèse) and manipulation.\nTh
 e exhibition\, curated by Filippo Fanciotti\,  displays the re-edited stu
 dies carried out by the LAPIS Laboratory between 2016 and 2023 in a series
  of allegorical diptychs laid out in thematic rooms. The left panel is a R
 econstruction of the original painting questioning the true essence of the
  reality represented\, exposing perspective corrections\, omissions or oth
 er choices made by painters to bend all physical and optical phenomena to 
 their own advantage in order to fine-tune their visual narratives. The rig
 ht panel is a Deconstruction work which in conversation with the Reconstru
 ction\, performs variations on the technical elements that characterize it
 .\nExploring the relationship between interiors and exteriors\, LAPIS disc
 ourse takes on the Baconian paradigm that knowledge passes through represe
 ntation by converting the architectural envelope into a scenic machine. A 
 device that questions the domestic\, the everyday\, the banal\, and addres
 ses the narrative role assumed by spatial sequences.\nThe unprecedented vi
 sion that emerges from the images in the exhibition\, finally deprived of 
 human presence\, offers architecture the opportunity to laconically speak 
 about itself as the narrator and main protagonist\, laying itself bare in 
 all its beautiful ordinariness and reaffirming its presence to a public th
 at had mostly ignored it.
LOCATION:SG 294.22 https://plan.epfl.ch/?room==SG%20294.22
STATUS:CONFIRMED
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