Italian architecture student and artist Davide Trabucco has drown our attention due to his ingenious intersection of renowned works of art spanning from photography to sculpture and paintings. Here`s what he told us about this projects, Confórmi:
“Confórmi is an archive I’ve started one year ago, to manage my visual references. It`s a personal work instrument that corelates elements near and far, alredy present in our collective imagery and visual culture. This research works on formal and aesthetic level of artworks, the most clear also at noninsider.
The subtitle, “Forms don’t belong to anyone”, wants to underline that artists and their works are independent: what we produce don’t belong anymore to us at the same moment we consign it to the world. Forms are already in the nature: we must only give them a new sense. The work method is comparative, the “new image” is created in the same moment when an architecture, a sculpture, a painting, remind me an other. The outward appearance is rigorous and functional for the archiving: a square and a diagonal, always the same, reveal similarities and differences. Confórmi hasn`t a fixed life: it stops growing at the same moment it will no more useful for me. It`s an open archive, that you can consult online everywhere in every moment.“
Cover photo: Robert Venturi, Denise Scott Brown and Steven Izenour, Learning from Las Vegas, 1972 VS Caspar David Friedrich, Der Wanderer über dem Nebelmeer, Hamburger Kunsthalle, 1818
PIERO DELLA FRANCESCA, PALA DI BRERA, PINACOTECA DI BRERA, MILANO, 1469-1474 VS FRANCIS BACON, PORTRAIT OF GEORGE DYER TALKING, 1966
CURZIO MALAPARTE, VILLA MALAPARTE, 1937-1943, CAPRI VS CAROLYN DAVIDSON, NIKE SWOOSH, 197
MARINA ABRAMOVIC, THE ARTIST IS PRESENT, MOMA, 2010 VS JULIAN WASSER, DUCHAMP PLAYING CHESS WITH A NUDE (EVE BABITZ), PASADENA ART MUSEUM, 1963
WALTER DE MARIA, NEW YORK EARTH ROOM, 1977 VS OLAFUR ELIASSON, RIVERBED, LOUISIANA MUSEUM OF MODERN ART, 2014
FRANK OWEN GEHRY, WINTON GUEST HOUSE, ORONO (USA), 1983-1987 VS GIORGIO MORANDI, NATURA MORTA, 1956
CARLO SCARPA, PALAZZO ABATELLIS, GALLERIA REGIONALE DI SICILIA, PALERMO, 1953-1954 VS MARK ROTHKO, UNTITLED, 1969
DAVID GANDY, DOLCE & GABBANA LIGHT BLUE ADVERTISING CAMPAIGN, 2007 VS FAUNO BARBERINI, GLYPTOTHEK, MÜNCHEN, 220 A.C.
LUDWIG MIES VAN DER ROHE, MODEL OF S.R. CROWN HALL, PHOTOGRAPHY (C) CHICAGO HISTORY MUSEUM VS EDOUARD MANET, UN BAR AUX FOLIES-BERGÈRES, COURTAULD GALLERY, LONDON, 1881-1882
SANAA, ROLEX LEARNING CENTER, LAUSANNE, 2004-2010 VS PAOLO SCHEGGI, INTERSUPERFICIE CURVA BIANCA, 1969
CARAVAGGIO, VOCAZIONE DI SAN MATTEO, CAPPELLA CONTARELLI, SAN LUIGI DEI FRANCESI, ROMA, 1599-1600 VS LUIGI GHIRRI, CAMPEGINE, 1986
GEORGE LUCAS, STAR WARS: EPISODE IV. A NEW HOPE, 1977 VS DAN FLAVIN, UNTITLED (TO VIRGINIA DWAN), 1971READ ALSO: DANCE WITH ARCHITECTURE: JESSICA LANG & STEVEN HOLL ON THE ESSENTIAL MIX OF ARCHITECTURE WITH OTHER ARTS (VIDEO)