Fundamental Acts: Love

Superstudio

Alessandro Magris

Roberto Magris

Gian Piero Frassinelli

Adolfo Natalini

Cristiano Toraldo di Francia

Alessandro Poli

1971-1973

A lithograph by the Italian collective Superstudio that pairs a pastoral, intimate scene with futuristic, honeycomb-like tower structures to imagine and critique how architecture shapes human relations.

At first glance you see a nude couple resting in tall grass above a mirrored pair of cylindrical, honeycombed towers linked by a glowing, lenslike ring—an uncanny photomontage that fuses sensual, natural textures with gleaming mechanical geometry.

Made during Superstudio’s radical 1970s interventions, the print shows how conceptual architects used photomontage and provocation to challenge modernist planning and to push architecture toward speculative, political storytelling.

Palette

Art Terms

Radical Architecture Architecture Artist collective Conceptual art Lithography Photomontage Print

Exhibitions

Architectural Studies and Projects

1975

The Modern Movement in Italy: Architecture and Design

1954

Twentieth Century Italian Art

1949

Futurism

1961