Panorama of cities from computer parts
Italian artist Franco Recchia saw inmicrocircuits, strips and other details of the system unit outlines of a large city. In his skillful hands small sculptures were born - panoramas of large megalopolises of the world from computer parts. To create them, more than a dozen old computers, televisions, tape recorders and other devices were needed.
Different neighborhoods of Manhattan, Detroit, Beijing,The futuristic outlines of cities of the future are made up of an incredible combination of diagrams and other details. According to the official press release from the latest exhibition: “Franco Recchia aims to give a little dignity to contemporary creativity, to emphasize that in every object created by human hands there is talent, imagination and extraordinary beauty that comes from the vast reservoir of human experience.”
Each work demonstrates incredible attention to detail, meticulous execution of delicate works. The sculptures are a pleasure to look at and to search for original images of the city!
Nowadays there are many physically and morally obsoletecomputers are simply thrown away. Such crafts are a great example of reusing trash for the aesthetic purposes of art. I think many people are capable of creating such a silhouette of their hometown with their own hands!
