Piranesi’s Campo Marzio | Stanley Allen
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Piranesi’s Campo Marzio: An Experimental Design by Stanley Allen | 1989 Black ink and photocopy on Mylar. “This project intends an excavation – though drawing and writing – of the “negative utopia” drawn by Piranesi for the Campo Marzio of Rome. I have conceived of Piranesi’s large plan (the grande pianta) as a site to be colonized, covered over and modified, as when a building is erected on ruins. My attempt is to uncover and articulate the surplus residue of […]
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