Invisible Cities
Ersilia. Described by author Italo Calvino in the book Invisible Cities as a city inconstant rebuilding and destruction. The citizens
carry string with them as they travel from their homes to different places to participate in daily activities until the roads and alleys
become impassable with string. These images, inspired by the words of Italo Calvino depict how we take from the Earth and continue
to live our lives forever altering these places beyond recognition.
The Empire is being pushed by its own weight, Kublai Khan is thinking and in his dreams, there are cities light like kites, perforated like lace, transparent like mosquito nets, cities like ribbing of leaves, as lines of a palm, filigree cities so delicate that you can see through their matt and fictitious thickness.” … / Excerpt from the book The Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino 1972/
The Invisible City is a three-dimensional multimedia installation in which drawing came to life, moving in a space.
Projects of unrealized or unrealizable architecture by the Utopians Claude Nicolas Ledoux and Etienne-Louis Boullée. Friedrich Kiesler’s Endless House. Unrealized competition proposals such as the Chicago Tribune Column by Adolf Loos, Gočár’s proposal for the completion of the Prague Old Town Hall and buildings that have eventually disappeared such as the commercial center Ještěd by Sial or the floating theater by the Italian architect Aldo Rossi and others. All of these projects have become essential features of the installation, which is a visual transcription of a story about the Invisible City.
Buildings unrealized, which means unreal or invisible, previously surviving as only two-dimensional floor plans, are transformed into spatial objects, which become separate entities grouped into a new spatial structure. By multiple projections of small objects, and by creating light ethereal movement
of objects using hidden suspension, rules of architecture and laws o
f physicsare shed from the image of the city. I am creating a city without gravity or horizon, which can tear us from a real situation and drag us into its subtly variable environment. By doing so, it is letting us be in silence. We are putting together images of cities with their own rules, cities from other universes, cities which may become an alternative to existing structures
or an intuitive part of our invisible inner worlds.