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Fundamental Acts: Love

Fundamental Acts: Love

Superstudio
Italian, est. 1966–1982
Alessandro Magris
Italian, born 1941
Roberto Magris
Italian, born 1935
Gian Piero Frassinelli
Italian, born 1939
Adolfo Natalini
Italian, born 1941
Cristiano Toraldo di Francia
Italian, born 1941
Alessandro Poli
Italian, born 1941
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.
Medium
Lithograph
Dimensions
27 9/16 × 39 3/8" (70 × 100 cm)
Classification
Credit
Committee on Architecture and Design Funds
Accession
379.2017.2
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