Date 2019 Height (cm) 14 Length (cm) 9 Depth (cm) 1,5 Weight (g) 300 Materials and Techniques Oil pastels and wall putty on paper. Subject/Description A notebook is a place of freedom through which you “become” who you are, crossing the pages like glades where magical rites are consumed. These drawings are the patient search for a source where colours, signs, ideas and visions, materialize as a small crack of playful freedom stolen from reason. I think of these drawings as a look that penetrates the thick and impregnable walls of a fortress as the Rocca di San Leo in the cell of Cagliostro.

Antonio Scarponi works on the conditions through which spatial relations and forms take shape. He is the founder of Conceptual Devices, through which this trajectory engages forms that cannot be reduced to objects. Drawing, installation, and architectural design operate within an epistemic practice that exposes contemporary social and cultural conditions. His drawings explore territorial imaginaries as palimpsests through processes of layering, accumulation, and erasure over time. Scarponi studied architecture at The Cooper Union in New York and at IUAV Venice, where he completed doctoral research in urban design.
His work has been exhibited internationally, including at the Venice Architecture Biennale and the Vienna Biennale for Change at MAK. In 2008, he received the Curry Stone Design Prize.
Since 2013, he has taught at the Zurich University of the Arts, and since 2017 in the MA Cultural Critique and Curatorial Studies. In 2023, he co-founded the Institute for Spatial Thinking.
Archival Fund AtWork Archive number XXII_363 Personal data Rimini (Italy), 1974. Architect, designer and teacher.