2012-10-22

Matteo Pericoli: the King of cityscape


Pericoli’s drawing is poetry: at once monumental and graceful.

The idea of unfurling cities was born one day on the Circle Line. There he thought that drawing everything instead of something, could have helped understanding the place where he was living. Inspecting cities’ architectures he analyzed drawing as an instrument for perception, comprehension and graphic rendering of the visible. That’s the way his first drawings of New York skyline was born (Manhattan Unfurled; Manhattan Within). The success of these works brought many other projects, collaborations, commissions and publications like See the City: the Journey of Manhattan Unfurled; The City Out of My Window: 63 Views on New York; The True Story of Stellina; Tommaso and the Missing Line; New York, Line by Line; World Unfurled; The City Out My Window: 63 Views on New York; Un Anno alla finestra: Torino, 53 Viste sull’Unità d’Italia [One Year at the Window: Turin, 53 Views on Italy's Unification] and Skyline of the World, the 397 feet long mural at NYC’s JFK airport.



Manhattan Unfurled
Have you ever had a book six times taller than you?
Matteo Pericoli created a 37 feet long accordion-like book, which litterally unfurls the view of
East and West Sides of Manhattan skyline. Pericoli began working on the original, pen and ink drawings in 1998. More than two years, fifteen hundred buildings, and nineteen bridges later, the two scrolls of the two Sides of the Manhattan skyline were completed.


The City Out My Window: 63 Views on New York 
The book captures 63 window views of New York City, as seen through the eyes of New Yorkers both famous and ordinary. Each window view is accompanied by a comment provided by its owner. Pericoli reveals the personal connection each of us has to the cityscape. The project started in 2004, when Pericoli moved out of the apartment on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. When the boxes were almost packed he looked once again at the view out of the window of his studio and he felt like he couldn’t have left behind. So he decided to photograph the view and then he drew it. The second step was visiting a hundred apartments, offices, studios of people who had a strong connection with the city.



Skyline of the World
The 397 feet long panoramic mural is a monumental drawing commissioned by American Airlines for its new Terminal 9 at John F. Kennedy International Airport.
Pericoli drew landmark architecture alongside lesser known buildings from more than 70 cities throughout the world. This beautifully detailed panoramic drawing inspires travelers to create their own travel memories and reminds the interconnectedness of our world.
 
London Unfurled
London Unfurled is a 25 feet long accordion-like book, which unfurls a striking view of the two Thames' riverbanks. The double-sided pages reveal each bank, from Hammersmith to Battersea Bridge, seen from its opposite side. The two rivals have been depicted in extraordinary detail. Everything’s at its place: every building, every bridge, every pier, every chimney, every steeple, every brick, every window. This is the result of two intense weeks spent in London in 2009 walking more than 100 km and taking 6.300 photographs.
In his afterword to the book, Pericoli thinks over the relationship between the two sides: “Like two magnets, the riverbanks have been rejecting and attracting each other for ever.”
Recently he also turned the drawings into an iPad app, where you can choose to start with the North or the South and it’s up to you whether you scroll through the picture manually, stopping along the way to read about significant buildings, or whether you let the drawing scroll by automatically. You can even choose a segment of the drawing and send it as a 'postcard' via email or Facebook.

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