Verticale
A microtypology
A microtypology
© 2018 | Giovanni Cappiello
Verticale | A microtypology
If the map were - as it is in part - the territory, they could look like drawing pins stuck in the ground to prevent cities from sliding off the desk; if cities were - as they partially are - living organisms, they would be as many heart valves placed there to push the urban plasma into the caves of the distribution plants, below the surface of the planet; if our planet was - as in part it is - a space base they could be mistaken for spaceships landed in the suburbs of industrial areas or entangled in the tangles of railway junctions.
Probably among the least attractive artifacts of human colonization of the planet, despite their poor aesthetic claims, they had the merit of opening the doors of art to photography, after an antechamber of a dozen decades. Probably because in them there is something more than what appears from their tanks, from the huge legs or from the massive pylons that support them. Unreadable news that they whispered to two of the greatest photographers of the second half of the twentieth century; this short series is a tiny and imperfect homage to their great lesson.
Probably among the least attractive artifacts of human colonization of the planet, despite their poor aesthetic claims, they had the merit of opening the doors of art to photography, after an antechamber of a dozen decades. Probably because in them there is something more than what appears from their tanks, from the huge legs or from the massive pylons that support them. Unreadable news that they whispered to two of the greatest photographers of the second half of the twentieth century; this short series is a tiny and imperfect homage to their great lesson.
© 2018 | Giovanni Cappiello
