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Founding member of Anamorphosis Architects, Nikos Georgiadis, guest edited the March issue 1998 of the Architectural Design magazine, called Tracing Architecture.
by Nikos Georgiadis, AD March 98, p.vi  |
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"Maybe she was giving me material for the painting" is a synthesis for a cover for a contemporary opera CD . Edward Hopper's painting 'Two on the Aisle'(1927 ) (page 04.Maybe she/2) is used first at a quasi-representational level (in the tradition of using 'classical' paintings to represent 'classical' scores). However, the synthesis activates the painting's inherent spatial potentials, proposing an extra treatment of Hopper's already rich spatial context. The question here is not to allocate design a given artwork (a CD cover), but to reveal and instrumentalise its spatiality as a critical presentation of the plot. In the opera, Conroy, a composer, lives in a fantasy world he has created for himself from an environment of people - copies of himself - who admire and serve him. Confusion arises when he falls in love with a woman 'from another world' who disturbs his community of replicas. The proposed image collocates the difference (perceptual, locational, metrical) between the space of the 'audience' (female) and that of the 'stage' (male). It highlights the instability and inattentionality of the former, vis a vis the austerity and spectacularity of the latter.~
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