Detail from exhibited work “blueprint and collage” a generative drawing from the event “10 Days at the Laundry” displayed in St John’s House, Winchester 2011.
Spatial Practices : Experimental drawing and alternative photography.
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Collage formed through a loose associative gathering of material from various sources. This working method was situated around the public performative event “10 Days in the Laundry.” Other material resonances and references have been merged and superimposed as a cognitive template over the interior architectural space.
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Collage and photogram derived from creative inquiry. Constructed to facilitate the exploration of the intersections of Art, Fashion/Culture and Architecture.
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Pinhole Photography used to investigate spatial relations of both the “concrete” and the “temporal” as they coalesce into a image marking the sequence/event of exposure.
Evocative perhaps of a sense of the surreal.This long durational image documents events composed of everyday superimpositions, merging them into oblique juxtapositions and turning them into a visionary sense of the unfolding of “place”.
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Pinhole photograph taken with a 25 litre drum converted into a camera. Direct exposure onto black and white photographic paper to produce a “negative” image of this unique sequence of events. Exposure time of around 25 minutes duration.
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Everyman Cinema : Winchester. On display as part of the “Yard Show” 3 May- 21 June.
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Creative visualisation from anologue chemistry with some digital rendering for a possible architectural glass application. Design contextualised around current research themes into the cosmological future of life. A note of thanks to M.N. Mautner for a copy of his book “Seeding The Universe with Life” and to the Society for Life in Space (SOLIS) website http://www.panspermia-society.com
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MARCO CASAGRANDE
Sandworm
Beach Wenduine, by Chalet West-Hinder
De Haan – Wenduine
“Designing is not sufficient. Design should not replace reality. The building must grow out of the location; it must react to its environment, it must be a reflection of life and also be itself, as every other living being. Architectural control goes against nature and thus also against architecture. The built human environment is a mediator between human nature and nature itself. To be part of this, man must be weak.”The work of Marco Casagrande is on the cusp between architecture and visual art. His work pays witness to a continuing interaction between work and environment: there is not a single building of his that is not searching for the questions thrown up by the immediate surroundings. For Beaufort04 Casagrande has created a fifty-metre long Sandworm, which stretches out between the dunes like an enormous wooden worm. The holes in the tunnel invite the visitors to come along too.
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