The Synchronous Architecture of the New Age 2007
Graphic work, edition: Planho - Seville, Spain
http://www.lucapantina.it/gallery/45/
Luca Pantina’s woodcut works for the architecture and consultancy firm PLANHO focus on displaying the synthesis of Synchronous Architecture of the New Age, represented by signs, elements and allegories that define the way forward for the field in pursuit of the spirit, through knowledge of the inner path. Everything is self-contained; there is nothing external, not even the theory of opposites. Existence consists of all the poles and these, however conflicting they may be, are part of the same body of the same density – let’s call it enlightened – which manifests itself in different ways but is always contained in the dynamics of interaction. All exists because everything is. In reality there is nothing opposite; the opposite is like water, easy to mould, adaptable. At every moment the polarity switches because existence undergoes changes but still remains the same, since the essence exists. The Italian artist has produced 30 plates of 10 units each, with a total of 300 copies, in which he combines four wooden moulds, equivalent to the four sides of a brick, rectangular, square and other geometric shapes present in architecture. The artist promotes a synchronous architecture typical of a New Age in which the important thing is that there is only harmony, since there is a continuous interaction between the cosmos and the evidence of the form and the spirit, wherever they are. Pantina unites the symbol of the Age of Aquarius with the Modulor of Le Corbusier, the allegory of nature and the strength of the inner serenity of meditation, all in line with the 13th path, which continues at 25 and then at 32 in the Kabala, where magic and alchemy join the middle path to complete the explanation of enlightenment. The spaces of compartmentalisation leave room for a sensitive architecture, where poesis manifests itself in all its splendour, reaching transmutation.
Joan Lluís Montané
Of the International Association of Art Critics
