{"id":4341,"date":"2025-04-12T10:19:45","date_gmt":"2025-04-12T10:19:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/antecamara-galeria.pt\/imagining-and-designing-cities\/"},"modified":"2025-04-12T10:22:37","modified_gmt":"2025-04-12T10:22:37","slug":"imagining-and-designing-cities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/antecamara-galeria.pt\/en\/imagining-and-designing-cities\/","title":{"rendered":"Imagining and Designing Cities"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\"><div class=\"templatera_shortcode\"><style type=\"text\/css\" data-type=\"vc_shortcodes-custom-css\">.vc_custom_1737657677248{border-color: #000000 !important;}.vc_custom_1738173009023{padding-bottom: 60px !important;}.vc_custom_1737647661645{margin-bottom: -1.4vw !important;}.vc_custom_1737647647658{margin-bottom: -30px !important;}.vc_custom_1737717350576{margin-left: -30px !important;padding-top: 80px !important;padding-bottom: 20px !important;}.vc_custom_1737651750490{border-top-width: 3px 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href=\"https:\/\/antecamara-galeria.pt\/en\/valerio-morabito\/\">Valerio Morabito<\/a><\/p>\n\n\t\t<\/div> \n\t<\/div> <\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><div      class=\"vc_row wpb_row section vc_row-fluid  ac_container_content\" style=' text-align:left;'><div class=\" full_section_inner clearfix\"><div class=\"ac_single_podcast_player wpb_column vc_column_container vc_col-sm-12\"><div class=\"vc_column-inner\"><div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\n\t<div class=\"wpb_text_column wpb_content_element  ac_expo_galeria\">\n\t\t<div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\n\t\t\t            <div class=\"flexslider \">\n            <ul class=\"slides\">\n                                    <li>\n                        <a href=\"https:\/\/antecamara-galeria.pt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/ImaginingandDesigningCities_GaleriaAC_1.jpg\" data-lightbox=\"slider-gallery\" data-title=\"\">\n                            <img decoding=\"async\" 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class=\"ac_single_podcast_info wpb_column vc_column_container vc_col-sm-9\"><div class=\"vc_column-inner\"><div class=\"wpb_wrapper\"><div class=\"vc_acf vc_txt_align_left field_679213a31b05b\"><p>Imagining and designing cities is a collection of a few drawings concerning cities around the world.<\/p>\n<p>Some of them are part of the drawings I realized at the American Academy of Rome in 2022. Others are drawings about Lisbon that have visited many years ago, and now I have drawn for this exhibition.<\/p>\n<p>My cities are collections of details reused to imagine and design new cities\u2019 ideas and shapes. The imagination for the drawings comes to life in the wilderness of cities rather than in nature. Without any heroic emphasis, they result from observing traces, evident or discreet, in imperfect urban landscapes. No single drawing in this exhibition represents a city in-situ; all are interpretations, translations, and combinations of many different places, stories, and books.<\/p>\n<p>I work with abstraction, which is a gesture of the mind rather than a representation of forms.<\/p>\n<p>There are no people in my drawings because cities are entities in themselves. Even though people are not there, I imagine how they transform the city. But, of course, human beings are the soul of cities. So, they are felt but not represented in my drawings.<\/p>\n<p>I am not interested in the accurate shapes or forms of cities that force a predetermined scale. Instead, I\u2019m recreating what I think the cities are in my drawings. As such, the cities are still alive representations without function or activities.<\/p>\n<p>These selected drawings, realized on canvases and oil colors, delineate a personal city idea free from any geometrical conditioning. Yet, even if I use oil colored on canvases, I believe they still are drawings that represent cities that could have been and could be but are not; an exercise in the search for design ideas\u2014an imagining of what could be.<\/p>\n<p>Valerio Morabito<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Organiza\u00e7\u00e3o:<\/p>\n<p>Antec\u00e2mara<\/p>\n<p>Apoio:<\/p>\n<p>MC \/ DGArtes<\/p>\n<p>Apoio institucional:<\/p>\n<p>Istituto Italiano di Cultura di Lisbona<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\t<div class=\"wpb_text_column wpb_content_element \">\n\t\t<div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\n\t\t\t<p>+ About <a href=\"https:\/\/antecamara-galeria.pt\/en\/valerio-morabito\/\">Valerio Morabito<\/a><\/p>\n\n\t\t<\/div> \n\t<\/div> <\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><div      class=\"vc_row wpb_row section vc_row-fluid  ac_titulo_do_mesmo_programa vc_custom_1738173009023\" style=' text-align:left;'><div class=\" full_section_inner clearfix\"><div class=\"wpb_column vc_column_container vc_col-sm-12\"><div class=\"vc_column-inner\"><div class=\"wpb_wrapper\"><div      class=\"vc_row wpb_row section vc_row-fluid vc_inner \" style=' text-align:left;'><div class=\" full_section_inner clearfix\"><div class=\"wpb_column vc_column_container vc_col-sm-12\"><div class=\"vc_column-inner\"><div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\n\t<div class=\"wpb_text_column wpb_content_element  ac_custom_grid_titulo vc_custom_1737717350576\">\n\t\t<div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\n\t\t\t<h3 style=\"text-align: left;\">Other Exibitions<\/h3>\n\n\t\t<\/div> \n\t<\/div> \n\t<div class=\"wpb_text_column wpb_content_element  ac_grid_loja vc_custom_1737651750490\">\n\t\t<div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\n\t\t\t<div id=\"ac_custom_expo_grid\"><\/div><button id=\"load-more-expo\" data-page=\"1\">+<\/button>\n\n\t\t<\/div> \n\t<\/div> <\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"13.01.2023 \u2192 10.02.2023 Imagining and Designing Cities Valerio Morabito Imagining and designing cities is a collection of a few drawings concerning cities around the world. 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