Photographs of Studio Ponsi's exhibit at Casabella Laboratorio now online

Photographs of the solo exhibition “Disegni e Architettura di Studio Ponsi - breve discorso sulla lunga linea” held at Casabella Laboratorio in Milano are now online (click here to view).

Architecture, Exhibition Design and Product Design of the office , together with a series of “Analogue Cities”, “Spartiti”, and a selection from the collection of “Face-it!” sketches by Andrea Ponsi, where exhibited.

Sponsor: FIDI - Florence Institute of Design International
Support: Casabella Laboratorio, ProViaggi Architettura

Below the text from the press release:

Following the path metaphorically outlined in the subtitle "short history of a long line", the exhibition highlights how projects belonging to apparently separate themes and fields relate to each other through the motif of drawing and analogy. To this end, Studio Ponsi, founded in Florence in 2008 by Andrea and Luca Ponsi, operates on the intersections between painting, sculpture, urban design, architecture, furniture and object design.

The exhibition begins with the series of watercolors "Spartiti", named after their composition’s similarity to musical notations. The "Spartiti" outline utopian visions based on the harmonious correspondence between human figures, interior spaces, architecture and natural landscapes. 

The “Storia di T” collection follows, consisting of tubular copper structures, the result of a three-dimensional transformation of the line into objects, furniture and display systems. 

The architectural works are represented by exhibition pavilions and residences built by Studio Ponsi in California and Italy. Observing the analogies that exist between forms and sensations, nature and artifice, history and contemporaneity, particular importance is given to the perceptive and sensory aspects of the projects, following a line of thought, rigorous and at the same time fluid, which is manifested in the dominant linear trend of the compositions. A further series of watercolors called "Visioni di città Analoghe" illustrates how urban glimpses of historic cities can be transformed into imaginary visions of contemporary spaces.  

The exhibition ends with "Face it!", A collection of drawings previously shown in the United States: hundreds of human faces outlined with graphic mastery on small yellow post-it.