Cityscape

Big cities represent “the dream” in the popular opinion: New York - with its wellness, its lights, its architectures - embodied perfectly the concept of “american dream”: then there are Milano, Dubai, Paris, Berlin, all the big cities of the industrialized world, that have started to be objects of imitation, reinterpretation, fantasies and even photomontages.

What fascinates the most about metropolis is their activity, their being in continuos movement: so Alessandro Russo portrays skyscrapers, train stations and ports, while Marco Garofalo - with a big fantasy - shows us Milano besieged by space ships or during a cold glaciation. Meloniski uses symbolism and represents an unreal Venice sending us to a metaphysic dimension, in the meanwhile Giancarlo Prandelli – like a good architect - portrays merely the architecture and the beauty of Milano and Roma with an extreme realism.

So, we can have “manipulations”, interpretations, or realist views, but urban landscapes are one of the favourite subject, and keep on charming artists and viewers.