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Addio Melampo Project, Oblique projection

Addio Melampo Project, Oblique projection

Massimo Scolari
Italian, born 1943
1975
A small watercolor, colored-ink, and graphite on board oblique-projection drawing in which Massimo Scolari imagines a surreal, machine-like architectural monument floating above a mountain landscape, blurring technical convention and poetic invention.
Cool, mineral washes of blue and gray shape alpine ridges while a precisely drawn geometric apparatus—a cylindrical ‘eye,’ lattice front, and tapering smokestack—hovers like a diagram made dreamlike by delicate color and line.
Scolari’s hybrid drawings questioned the modernist idea of architectural representation as purely technical, using oblique projection and allegorical imagery to open drawing into narrative, speculation, and critical reflection that influenced later generations of architects and theorists.
Medium
Colored ink, watercolor, and graphite on board
Dimensions
11 7/8 x 10" (30.2 x 25.4 cm)
Classification
Credit
Gift of The Howard Gilman Foundation
Accession
1294.2000
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