![]() ![]() You can learn more about the project from Puente’s official website here. Published in Italian in 1972, Italo Calvino s 'Invisible Cities' consists of a sequence of imaginary dialogues between the Venetian traveler Marco Polo and the Tartar emperor Kublai Khan. Puente’s work is set to go on display in the San Miguel de Allende, Mexico on the 2nd February 2019. A subtle and beautiful meditation Sunday Times In Invisible Cities Marco Polo conjures up cities of magical times for his host. According to Puente, "each illustration has a conceptual process, some of which take more time than others." Usually "I research, think, and ideate over each city for three weeks before making sketches." The final drawings and cut-outs take around a week to produce. Invisible Cities, which imagines fictional conversations between the (real-life) Venetian explorer Marco Polo and the aged Mongol ruler Kublai Khan, has been instrumental in framing approaches to urban discourse and the form of the city. Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino, William Weaver (Translator), Erwin Salim (Translator), (Translator) 4. ![]() Work done in the context of the project The Graphic. Her collection, which ArchDaily published in 2016, and again in 2017, consists of mixed media collages, drawn mainly using ink on paper, brings together a sequence of imagined places – each referencing a city imagined in the book. A visual (re)interpretation of the book Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino (first published in 1972). Lima-based architect Karina Puente has created a new series in her personal project: to illustrate each and every "invisible" city from Italo Calvino's 1972 novel. ![]()
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