La exposición creada por el proyecto KatatexiLux en le Fruttiere del Palazzo Te en Mantua (Italia).
Desde el 15 de diciembre de 2013, en 04 de mayo 2014.
comisarios:
Stefano Borghini
Raffaele Carlani
colaboradores:
Gabriele Monotti
Valerio Barzotti
Giuseppe Arena
Giulia Santucci
Asesoramiento científico:
prof. Alessandro Viscogliosi
PHILOSPHY
The
goal of Progetto KatatexiLux is to take advantage of IT technology
and apply it to an ancient traditional field of study. By doing so,
we propose an experimental use of computer technology, an interesting
and innovative scientific study and research tool, and an effective
approach to pubblication. The Project’s main idea is that the
technological means is the instrument through which it is possible to
realize Raffaellos’s dream: the reconstruction of the ancient world
by joining the historian’s skills to those of the artist. In other
words, to combine the quest for scientific quality, on the one hand
with to the ability to excite, on the other.
Scientific
accuracy and attention to aesthetic content are therefore the result
that these works aspire to attain. They are the final result of
painstaking reconstruction processes, capable of justifying every
reconstructive choice, through a specifically designed methodology.
Therefore
it is not a question of iconography used to represent a preconceived
idea of ancient architecture. Progetto KatatexiLux employs a new way
of conducting historical-arhitectural research: all archaeological
data is carefully evaluated within the reconstruction phase and all
emerging hypotheses are carefully verified through an actual physical
phenomena simulation involved in the architecture.
ABOUT US
Progetto
KatatexiLux is the name under which cultural heritage computer
applications are produced by the Associated Architects Studio,
Stefano Borghini and Raffaele Carlani. The Studio is particularly
interested in IT assisted research in the art history and
architecture history fields.
KatatexiLux
Project was founded in September 2002 and is the idea of two young
graduating architecture students with a shared passion for high
technology and computer science applied to the history of
architecture. The project name comes from the "crasi"
between two terms: on the one hand, the ancient greek katatexitechnos
(translated as "he who disperses art in the minutiae") that
represents the scientific care and attention to detail present in the
studio’s projects; on the other hand, the Latin medieval “lux”
(inspirational origin of Gothic architecture) emphasizes the
emotional and engaging aspect which is the main inspiration that
enlivens the Studio’s work. Stefano Borghini and Raffaele Carlani’s
start collaborating while working on the reconstruction of the
Virtual Neronis Domus Aurea in 2004, a project which is contiuously
being updated.
This
is the first of a series of official recognitions that takes their
work, in a short time, to become known amongst professionals in the
field and beyond. In May 2005, part of the research material was
purchased by the RAI (Italian Radio and Television) and transmitted
on cultural diffusion programs. A new version of the outdoor spaces
of the villa is again produced for RAI in October 2009. Over time,
Progetto KatatexiLux dedicates itself to many other works, one which
stands out in particular, the movie "Domus Aurea Neronis.
Virtual tour of the palace of an emperor" with virtual
reconstructions of Nero's palace, carried out for the Rome All Night
Fesitval in 2006; the interactive multimedia project "Virtual
Ara Pacis", an ambitious computer oeuvre concerning the
monument, commissioned by the Cultural Heritage Department of the
City of Rome and currently in the Ara Pacis Museum in Rome; the movie
"Domus Aurea 1774" commissioned by the Museo della
Fondazione Roma for the exhibition "Rome and the Ancient.
Reality and Vision in the 700’s" opened in November of 2010.
In September 2008 for the light show, "The colors of the Ara
Pacis," Progetto KatatexiLux studied and rendered the
entire restored hypothesis of the original colors of the altar on a
philological basis. Noteworthy is the Studio’s participation in
special events dedicated to new technologies applied to cultural
heritage: among these was the exhibition "Imagine Ancient Rome,"
the first world exhibition of virtual archeology, held in Rome, at
Trajan's Market in 2005, or the ArcheoVirtual Expo, section of the
ninth edition of the Mediterranean Archaelogical Tourism Exchange
held in Paestum (SA) in November 2006.
Since
November 2005, the firm has worked in educational support activities,
with the chair of Architecture History and Ancient and Medieval
Urbanism in the "Valle Giulia"Architecture Department of
the University of Rome" La Sapienza ". From this moment on,
the Studio regularly combines teaching activities and field work,
teaching masters and university level courses. In July 2008, the
architect Borghini, acquires the title of PhD in Architecture
History, and in March of the same year becomes an Adjunct Professor
in the “Ludovico Quadroni” Architecture Department of the "La
Sapienza" University of Rome. In 2007 the study begins
collaborating on numerous projects with the Institute for Applied
Technologies in Cultural Heritage of the CNR. From 2009/2010 Borghini
and Carlani both become researchers at the same institute.
Since
May 2004, the Studio has participated in various research activities,
conferences, and national and international meetings relating to the
history of architecture, archeology and new technologies, applied to
cultural heritage. Talks have been held from Rome to Turin and Berlin
toWarsaw at prestigious institutes such as the "La Sapienza"
University of Rome, the Regional Authority for Archaeological
Heritage of Rome, the Deutsches Archäologisches Institut Rom and the
Muzeum Narodowe in Warsaw and for authoritative bodies such as the
CAA (Computer Applications and Quantitative Methods in Archaeology)
and the FAI (Italian Environment Fund). Over the years, several
articles and contributions have been published in conference
proceedings and in specialized journals.
Imágenes de la reconstrucción de la Domus Aurea de Nerón:
Vídeo de la exposición en el Palazzo Te
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