Shaping the culture

“Shaping the culture” is an installation composed of paintings. A three-dimensional environment representing both classical architectural elements and everyday industrial objects, visually connected by a stylised graphic-pictorial form, which simplifies the three-dimensionality of the model into a development of monochrome planes and backgrounds. The result of this manipulation is a hybrid between a scenography and a scaffolding, which explicitly provokes a dialogue between the decoration and the device: from the frame to the manhole, from the column to the traffic cone. In this way, both the pictorial autonomy and the object functionality of the elements represented are plundered, and in their aesthetic reuse, reduced to spoils of the author’s subjective and arbitrary imagination. The construction of this rhetorical device, finally, would like to stimulate a reflection on the historical discrimination of colour, decoration and texture, relegated to the margins by modernity as superfluous parts of an idyllically neutral device such as the frame. That is, the work focuses on the relationship between practice and theory, between practice and project.