Artwork by Giovanni Giupponi | Italy
âOrganic Tubularâ Oil on Melamine
Giovanni Giupponi is an Italian artist born in Trento on June 20, 1977. He currently lives and works in his hometown. He graduated in D.A.M.S./Art at the Literature and Philosophy faculty of Bologna University. He began his artistic career in 2014; mixing and alternating his interests, which range from painting and architecture to music and photography, with the intent of creating works with a predominantly experimental feel that nowadays strays into design.Â
His interest in electronic music comes out in all his works, which have a pronounced rhythmic feel. It is a vital thrust, a creative impulse that finds its roots in philosophy, with a special mention to Gilles Deleuze but also touching on Zaha Hadidâs organic shape architecture in the form of shapes in a continuous metamorphosis. âThe Baroque does not refer to an essence, but rather to an operative function, to a characteristic. It endlessly creates folds. It does not invent the thing: there are all the folds that come from the Orient, Greek, Roman, Romanesque, Gothic, classical folds.... but it twists and turns the folds, takes them to infinity, fold upon fold, fold after fold. The characteristic of the Baroque is the fold that goes on to infinityâ (G. Deleuze, The Fold, Einaudi, 2004, p. 5). Fascinated by the expressive potential of the fold, or twist, he elaborates his research into the organic. His works bring to mind the âthe folds of the wind, of water, of fire and earth and subterranean foldsâ (G. Deleuze, The Fold, Einaudi, 2004, p. 10) and much more.Â
The object of his search is the curve that is continuously changing, drawing from Deleuzeâs metaphysical chaos, irregular and incalculable, like in parametric architecture bent on creating fluid and biomorphic configurations. Biomorphism is one of the most important iconological forms in architecture and art. The model can be the human body (anthropomorphism), the animal kingdom (zoomorphism), the plant kingdom (fitomorphism). Reference to biology comes in response to an idea of architecture as a âlivingâ organism. Be it Santiago Calatravaâs refined âexoskeletonsâ. Be it âskinsâ that allow a building to âbreatheâ and synthesize solar energy (Agbar Tower in Barcelona). Be its reference more superficial (Kunsthaus in Graz, Selfridges in Birmingham), or be it wonderfully iconological (âThe Netâ Olympic Stadium Beijing). The camouflage and metaphorical circle between man and nature renews itself through evermore evolved architectures: the maximum organic ânaturalnessâ of the biological universe, with the maximum technological âartificialnessâ. It is about hidden dimensions of the universe, about dimensions that escape our perception, it is the most intimate part of matter and spirit. The universe is made of curves.Â
However, Giovanni Giupponi, is not limited to the development of the organic, but delves into other types of research; for example minimalism, geometric art and abstract art.
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