Spatial Environment

<span style="font-style: italic;font-size:100%;" ></span><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">"Mine eyes have seen the glory of <span style="font-weight: bold;">the sacred wunderkind </span></span><br style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">You took me behind a dis-used railway line </span><br style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">And said "<span style="font-weight: bold;">I know a place where we can go </span></span><br style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Where we are not known" </span> <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CQWvMUzTgIk"><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(153, 153, 153);">(T.T.T.T.)</span></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7105/7333642770_d55ddfa25c_b.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7105/7333642770_d55ddfa25c_b.jpg" style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 652px; height: 490px;" /></a><br /><br /><a href="http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8159/7333589466_60a83d7d69_b.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8159/7333589466_60a83d7d69_b.jpg" style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 651px; height: 897px;" /></a><br /><br /><br style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><em style="color: rgb(0, 51, 51);"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Ambienti Spaziali:</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size:100%;"></span></em><span style="font-size:100%;">"a complex labyrinth of glaring luminosity in which</span><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-style: italic;"> </span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">t<span style="font-style: italic;">he</span> viewer loses all sense of direction and time<br /></span>and ends against a wall cut by a single slash."</span><br style="font-style: italic;"><br /><br /><br />1. <span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(51, 0, 0);font-size:130%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;">Lucio Fontana </span></span>Ambienti Spaziali May 3 - June 30, 2012 @ <a href="http://www.gagosian.com/exhibitions/lucio-fontana--may-03-2012">Gagosian, NY</a><br /><br />"Fontana's fascination for the advancements of science and technology during the twentieth century led him to approach art as a series of investigations into a wide variety of mediums and methods. As a sculptor, he experimented with stone, metals, ceramics, and neon; as a painter he attempted to transcend the confines of the two-dimensional plane. In a series of manifestos, beginning with the Manifesto blanco (White Manifesto) of 1946,<span style="font-style: italic;font-size:130%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;"> Fontana announced his goals for a "spatialist" art, one that could engage technology to achieve an expression of the fourth dimension in a radical new aesthetic idiom that melded the categories of architecture, sculpture, and painting</span></span>. A sculptor trained in classical techniques, Fontana was initially known for grand and innovative sculptures produced for trade fairs and exhibitions promoting the ideology of Fascism in Italy. But these early examples already contained a rationalist abstract language that pointed to an awareness of the most daring rationalist architectonic experiments of Edoardo Persico and Giuseppe Terragni."<br /><br />2. <span style="font-style: italic;font-size:130%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;"> <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Biedermeier-Bauhaus-Sigrid-Sangl/dp/0810957086">Biedermeier to Bauhaus</a></span></span>, by Singrid Sangl<br /><br />"From the Renaissance to the early 20th century, curator Sigrid Sangl traces the complex but characteristic interior design styles found throughout Germany,<span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"> literally opening the doors to a variety of exceptional interiors.</span> Most of the featured residences—townhouses, royal palaces, artists’ studios, and rural retreats—have never before been photographed. Barbara and René Stoeltie’s sumptuous full-color images, many specially commissioned for this book, convey both the grand scale and the distinguishing details of each style: 16th-century wood-paneled parlors with furniture in matching inlaid patterns; elaborate Baroque wall paintings inspired by exotic plant forms; sturdy, stalwart Biedermeier tables and chairs; <span style="font-style: italic;font-size:130%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;">the sinuous, ornamental curves of Jugendstil; and the simple, streamlined functionalism of the Bauhaus. </span></span>"<br /><br /><br /><br /><br style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">----------------------</span>

Spatial Environment

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