We have grown accustomed to Google Maps, satellite views and flight but, with their pictorial undertones, these landscapes feature abstract forms and signs that almost eliminate the identity of every shot, making them seem fictitious.
“Microcities” is an aerial atlas, the first to move like a modern globetrotter from the Po Valley to Cairo, from the French countryside to Casablanca, from the desert regions of Iran and Iraq to the golf courses of central Italy, from Naples to Miami and from Shenzhen to Dubai, passing via Rome, Hong Kong and the suburbs of Madrid. There is no ideal city, there is no difference and there is no localism. Here, the focus is the silence and void of micro-landscapes lacking all human signs: houses, buildings, rivers, embankments, mountains; there is no nature or urbanisation, no technology or progress. There are curves, lines, dots, geometric and boundless forms, repetitions of colour and light and dark, all traced on a planisphere perused far and wide. From this angle, the world looks small, a microscopic collection of the fabrics that progress has traced on its surface.”
from February 5 until February 18, 2016
Matteo Procaccioli
Microcities
curated by Luca Beatrice
Museo della Permanente di Milano
via Turati 34, Milano