Marco Palmieri and his Constructed Forms

AN EXHIBITION OF THE PAINTERARCHITECT KNOWN FOR HIS SOLID FORMS. FROM 12 SEPTEMBER TO 4 NOVEMBER IN THE UNIVERSITY RESTAURANT


There are artists who paint architectures and artists who build forms.
Marco Palmieri belongs to the second kind. He is a painter-architect not only because he studied at the Faculty of Architecture in Naples and worked with Sottsass, but because he loves solid forms. Constructed, solid forms. The one that show that the world, in spite of what Renan argued, is not made of fog.

"Palmieri subtracts," says Elena Pontiggia, "and, by subtracting, he adds. He achieves that synthesis of design loved by de Chirico, Carra, Sironi and Morandi (objects of Palmieri’s homage) ".

Even when he has to reckon with the accumulation of forms, with the onslaught of repeated figures, with the multiplication of parts, he makes sure that his elements - whether objects, chairs or houses - are reduced to a minimum in a geometry that suggests, if not an order, a need for simplification.

We live in times of additions, of induced needs, superfluous things mistaken for necessities, losing sight of the essential. We are grateful to Palmieri to teach us the secrets of architecture. But perhaps the secret is only one, and coincides with the rule that the top American educator suggested to parents, concerning their children: "If you want to do something more,  do something less. "

Free admission, Monday-Saturday: 9:00 to 12:00
 

by Susanna Della Vedova
Translated by Richard Greenslade