Massimo Scolari Addio Melampo Project, Oblique projection 1975

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Massimo Scolari used images to manipulate form without using Renaissance or neoclassical styles. His drawings are pure fantasy and often defy explanation. In Urban Passage, geometric forms resembling a house seem to be projected onto a mythical landscape by the sky. In Addio Melampo, these forms emanate from the earth itself. Its title refers both to the name of a dog in an Italian novel and to a mythical Greek man who can see the future and understand the voices of animals, although for Scolari there is not necessarily a connection between the title and the image of a drawing. Addio Melampo is clearly a drawing born from imagination.

Publication excerpt from an essay by Bevin Cline and Tina di Carlo, in Terence Riley, ed., The Changing of the Avant-Garde: Visionary Architectural Drawings from the Howard Gilman Collection, New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 2002, p. 125.
Medium
Colored ink, watercolor, and graphite on board
Dimensions
11 7/8 x 10" (30.2 x 25.4 cm)
Credit
Gift of The Howard Gilman Foundation
Object number
1294.2000
Copyright
© 2023 Massimo Scolari
Department
Architecture and Design

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