All that is Social Melts into the Network (original) (raw)

2020, In D. T. FERRANDO, B. LOOTSMA, K. TRAKULYINGCHAROEN (ed.), Italian Collage, LetteraVentidue, Siracusa 2020

In the “complex and variegated panorama” of Italian architects now recurring to drawing as a critical practice, as well as to blogs and social media as vehicles for the communication of their work, the cases of Beniamino Servino (1960), Carmelo Baglivo (1964) and Luca Galofaro (1965) stand out for their representativeness: not just for the contents of their researches, which move in several directions reaching different levels of complexity, but also for the form they take and the dynamics they generate, once they are distilled into digital collages and posted online. It is important to stress the relevance that the choice of the medium has for the comprehension of the work of these (and other) authors. In a way that’s not so dissimilar from the magazine Archigram, in fact, they recur to web tools as editorial platforms of which they are at the same contributors, editors and publishers. In this sense, they are fully responsible for what and how is being published, extending the scope of their investigation way beyond the simple production of images. It is for this reason that, in order to briefly introduce the drawings of these three authors, I find it necessary to consider them from the point of view of both their messages and their media.