Tresoldi: Archetipo

Edoardo Tresoldi and Designlab Experience envisioned in Abu Dhabi a garden where architecture and nature dance together in continuous connections and contrasts.

Edoardo Tresoldi with Designlab Experience, <i>Archetipo</i>, Abu Dhabi, 2017
Edoardo Tresoldi has designed and built artworks within a royal event in Abu Dhabi, in collaboration with Dubai-based studio Designlab Experience. The event, which was attended by 1,900 guests from the whole Middle East, required a three-month work of planning and development. The 7,000 square meters scenographic space marks a step forward for the Italian artist, who for the first time confronts himself with the design of a vast indoor space, together with Designlab Experience’s Mootassem Elbaba and Marwan Maalouf. Part of the artworks will be re-installed separately in institutional locations: universities, museums and parks across the UAE capital.

 

Tresoldi and DLE envisioned a garden where architecture and nature dance together in continuous connections and contrasts, whose peculiarities, in the Renaissance meaning, are filtered, absorbed and interpreted by the contemporary man. The set-up is a symphonic space where classical archetypes interact with the signs of the modernist language. Using transparencies and their broken rhythms, Tresoldi cuts and breaks up classical harmonies with elements of absolute geometry such as spheres, cubes, and planes. The overall effect results in a continuous evolution of architectural abstractions and evanescent distortions.

Edoardo Tresoldi with Designlab Experience, Archetipo, Abu Dhabi, 2017
Edoardo Tresoldi with Designlab Experience, Archetipo, Abu Dhabi, 2017
An absolute landscape that develops itself through an inverse process: nature grows and evolves on the imaginary space, trying to give shape and matter to human visions. In Tresoldi’s concept, the transparent architecture determines the interpretation of natural orders, with small visual poems in which these two worlds prove to be parallel and intersected at the same time. Nature is a synthesis of landscape, man becomes landscape through architecture. If, to quote Höl­der­lin, gardens are what allow us to “dwell poetically upon this earth”, Tresoldi’s work in Abu Dhabi is then a multi-tiered experience, a sacralized and identified human space. The fusion of classical and modernist language generates a third one, marked by clear visual and volumetric decompositions, a contemporary one.
Edoardo Tresoldi with Designlab Experience, Archetipo, Abu Dhabi, 2017
Edoardo Tresoldi with Designlab Experience, Archetipo, Abu Dhabi, 2017

Edoardo Tresoldi, Archetipo, Abu Dhabi
In collaboration with: Designlab Experience – Mootassem Elbaba and Marwan Maalouf
Year: 2017

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