Date 2021 Height (cm) 2 Length (cm) 14 Depth (cm) 20 Weight (g) 360 Materials and Techniques Mixed technique. Oil pastels, wall putty, vinyl glue Subject/Description “Le Confessioni di Cagliostro” are drawings and views of areas of imaginary territories that refer to the memory of places lived and frequented. They are transformed into a “drawing” regardless of the analytical or merely descriptive reflection of reality as if to claim the autonomy of a sign from the very representation of reality. Archival Fund AtWork Archive number XXII_FF_370 Bibliography 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.
Personal data Rimini (Italy), 1974. Architect, designer and teacher.