Gallery: This Graffiti’s Only an Illusion If You’re in the Right Place
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The paint job you see here is the work of Felice Varini.
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The Swiss-born, Paris-based artist specializes in perspective-dependent projections called anamorphoses.
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From most angles, the shapes make little sense. But move to the right vantage point and the fragments merge into clear, continuous shapes that seem superimposed on the building.
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It often looks as though someone took a photo of the building, developed it, and screen-printed circles and triangles directly onto the image.
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Right now these disparate shards of color decorate MAMO, an open-air art space on top of Le Corbusier's La Cité Radieuse apartment building.
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Varini says he prefers not to assign too much meaning to the shapes and patterns he chooses for his installations. His designs are not based on history, or art, or even the canvas upon which they live.
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Varini says he thinks about the human body, and how he can alter the body’s relationship to its surroundings.
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This project is installed with painted aluminum, and will come down in October. Until then, Varini says, “maybe people don’t understand exactly what I’m doing, but they are experiencing something new.”
