The Irony on the Iconic
Those illustrations are supporting the idea of an icon as timeless and common good object.
With special thanks to Luca Galofaro for his help
First to help the development of a memorandum whose subject was the irony in architecture, these collages took another dimension.
In the memorandum, it is more accurately a Socratic irony in question. This irony feigning ignorance and unmasking "scholars". In order to question what seems certain.
This irony is applied to architecture.
This process gave the role of two protagonists: modern against postmodern architecture.
More complex than simply illustrating a funny conversion of architectural myths, these pictures show different processes of irony . For example, irony uses decontextualization, so I apply it directly to four architectures.
Those four buildings were fallen into the common good and became iconic for what they represent. The change of material, size, environment make appear, in the hollow of these overlays, a reflection on the original value of each of these architectures.
This questioning of the architectural icons, or rather thought it embodies.
This is one of the strengths of irony, unearthed the real perpetrators and not their faces to front with other authors’ ideals. This is where we see that many modern and post-modern theories overlap. Finally, they are only opposed by the image they return.
That is why I try to combine contrary building's mouvances on the collages, or nonsense to the strict charter of each movement. Not really causing but rather nice.