ARCHITECTURES

the vacuity lingers over the buildings
ecstasy of the unperceivable
deviances in the absolute circular balance

In this case, "mental architecture", which has been digitally enhanced, sustains and amplifies the structural and conceptual quality of the images.
The digital elaboration of the buildings is an obvious provocation, an excuse to play with a condition which would not be applicable to the reality of everyday life. At the same time it is useful and suitable as an aesthetical evaluation of the photographic reality.
The mental architecture overlaps the functionality evoked and expressed in the photographed structures as a value added. This architecture is an end in itself, which uses images that are strongly representative of both the primary needs and the activity of man, but at the same time it’s a project of aesthetical abstraction inserted into architectural images, which creates possibilities for further reflection. Buildings and scaffolding are built to stimulate the mind through the use of typical planning tools and schemes. They shift our interest from what is useful and functional to a course that leads us to the verification of our condition as part of the immanent-transcendent side of our being, rather than focusing our attention on things.

felix dario ruggeri