Soft Landscapes by Marco Piva On sheets of white paper, playing with strokes and colours, I painted with tempera, watercolour and oil, a mix of colours and weaves, thus creating vibrant textures of lines and dots, transparency and opacity, luminosity and intensely coloured areas. Imaginary places and spaces were returning to my memory, maybe they were real places, natural or artificial landscapes, cities, transformed by a graphic gesture into new, abstract territories. Then I met ege and realised that those drawings could interpret the territories which were the arenas for actions and adventures of living, homes, hotels, places of entertainment, work, and communication. Territories with soft, gentle and amicable floors, where textile flooring, carpeting and rugs play a role of visual, tactile and emotional pleasure. So it was then that I started working on a collection of designs that, starting from my freehand pictorial “divertissements”, interpreted, in a new and dynamic way, the theme of injection dyed textile flooring, abandoning the traditional decorations, graphic biases and stylistic paradigms that, also because of the many application requirements in contemporary architecture, were by then the normal rule. I moved a long way away from the territory of applied decoration to venture into the uncharted territory of pure imagination where material, colours, and textures form an integral part of interiors conceived as space. The original hand-painted designs were then re-elaborated and calibrated via the filter of computer graphics. They were multiplied, mirrored and modified in a new, vast and complex scenario, where the original weaves and colours gradually took on new dimensions and intensity. This was how new landscapes were born, Soft Landscapes, unusual places drawn in different scales, intensified or rarified, which have the colours and shades of places visited in various parts of the world, regenerated by my memory: hot and African, brilliant and Mediterranean, delicate and romantically Middle-European, cold and with Nordic moderation, also transformed into a metropolitan context. 2
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