Direct Architecture
Novocomun on wheels
curated by Marco Scotini
Borgovico 33 Como, Italy
Maria Papadimitriou has designed a mobile platform that can be moved around Como. In a derisory and light-hearted gesture, the artist has placed one of Como’s best-known pieces of Modernist architecture on wheels. The famous corner solution of Terragni’s Novocomum, one of the first Italian examples of Rationalist architecture from the 1920s, becomes a scale model just over six metres tall, with coloured lights on the inside that make it Pop and an example of truck-art.
