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Paramount. 8K (8192 x 4320, R3D MQ, 25fps) VistaVision* 35mm Video. 13:30 min. Color. Silent. 2023 [Full version]

Paolo Pasquini Arquitects. _se studioelementare, Segreen Business Park amplification, Segrate, Milan.
Context/ Framework: Luigi Caccia Dominioni and Vico Magistretti, San Felice, Segrate, Milan | Oscar Niemeyer, Palazzo Mondadori, Segrate, Milan.
Fuorisalone, Milan Design Week. Brera Design District, Hi Lite next. Milan, Italy, 2023.

https://www.studioelementare.it/sito2016/portfolio/segreen

Director of photography, Vitaly Kazanin
Digital Image Technician, Arthur Morar
Montage, Edition. Iñigo Cabo, Alejandro Lightowler Stahlberg

Camera: RED V-Raptor 8K VV
Lenti: Zeiss CP.3 25mm/35mm/50mm/85mm
filtri IRND Tiffen 0,3/0,6/0,9/1,2/1,5.
Sistema di registrazione: 8K (8192 x 4320, R3D MQ, 25fps)
Software di conversione: DaVinci Resolve
Spazio colore: REDWideGamut RGB, Log3G10



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Paramount. 8K (8192 x 4320, R3D MQ, 25fps) VistaVision* 35mm Video. 13:30 min. Color. Silent. 2023 [Excerpts]

Paolo Pasquini Arquitects. _se studioelementare, Segreen Business Park amplification, Segrate, Milan.
Context/ Framework: Luigi Caccia Dominioni and Vico Magistretti, San Felice, Segrate, Milan | Oscar Niemeyer, Palazzo Mondadori, Segrate, Milan.
Fuorisalone, Milan Design Week. Brera Design District, Hi Lite next. Milan, Italy, 2023.

https://www.studioelementare.it/sito2016/portfolio/segreen

Director of photography, Vitaly Kazanin
Digital Image Technician, Arthur Morar
Montage, Edition. Iñigo Cabo, Alejandro Lightowler Stahlberg

Camera: RED V-Raptor 8K VV
Lenti: Zeiss CP.3 25mm/35mm/50mm/85mm
filtri IRND Tiffen 0,3/0,6/0,9/1,2/1,5.
Sistema di registrazione: 8K (8192 x 4320, R3D MQ, 25fps)
Software di conversione: DaVinci Resolve
Spazio colore: REDWideGamut RGB, Log3G10



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Paramount.
8K (8192 x 4320, R3D MQ, 25fps) VistaVision 35mm. 13:30 min. Color. Silent. 2023
Paramount # 1. Independent sequence. 4K. 55 sec. Color. Silent. 2023



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Paramount.
8K (8192 x 4320, R3D MQ, 25fps) VistaVision 35mm. 13:30 min. Color. Silent. 2023
Paramount # 2. Independent sequence. 4K. 42 sec. Color. Silent. 2023



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Paramount.
8K (8192 x 4320, R3D MQ, 25fps) VistaVision 35mm. 13:30 min. Color. Silent. 2023
Paramount # 3. Independent sequence. 4K. 1'16 min. Color. Silent. 2023


Camera: RED V-Raptor 8K VV
Lenti: Zeiss CP.3 25mm/35mm/50mm/85mm
filtri IRND Tiffen 0,3/0,6/0,9/1,2/1,5.
Sistema di registrazione: 8K (8192 x 4320, R3D MQ, 25fps Software di conversione: DaVinci Resolve
Spazio colore: REDWideGamut RGB, Log3G10



Paramount, a film by Iñigo Cabo per studioelementare

Twilight begins by closing the night with light, classically, cyclically. The birds depart, diagonally from the roof, towards the city lights in the background. We look across another visual diagonal –in aerial view [chopped plane]– from the roof to the lowest level of the mirror pool in the patio and at all the reflections and shapes, as the dawn breaks. A natural, concrete image from the concrete of a building. Interns [Interiori], reflections [UFO-lamps], observatories from each floor at the external palcoscenic of the amplification de-signed by Paolo Pasquini _se studioelementare in the Segreen Business Park, Segrate, Milan, Italy. Rotating from his building, in the grounding of his project with space, with the historical and Res-idential time and with the context: the roofs of Luigi Caccia Dominioni and Vico Magistretti in San Felice and on the other side the Palazzo Mondadori by Oscar Niemeyer . With the ad/miration of the Milan skyline beyond the horizon.

We descend from the roof to the ground, to the movements of this contemplative time. Scale, distance travelled in space in time per person. The external landscape that looks at our axis, movement of vehicles and workers. A section [cut] with Antonioni and his reinterpretation in “La Notte” from the Italian Neorealism to the Straight Photography of the Novecento [twentieth century], and his anticipation (more natural and lively) to the Objektive, Direkt Fotografie of the end of the last century and the beginning of the present: in its opposition to the current of pictorialism and in general to any form of manipulation of the image extraneous to the linguistic specificities and the formal architecture of the medium and to the imaginal and architectural -reflexive image that the subject constructs in his vision of the Real–]. Image-time. We reascend to the sunset, buildings spread out, a day, an expanse. Nocturnal reflections on the facade, deictic shapes or Theistic [God-des] symbols of iridescent lights. The job ends. The birds come back e la notte va [night goes]

Paolo Pasquini _se studioelementare, opens the foundations of his architectural expansion to the projective deployment of a work of art, to the artistic research from Iñigo Cabo [–on the possibility of the co-presence of anthropic Sense with the free Non-sense of Nature], before the volume-model/sensible architectonical anatomy. Both projects are pure and clearly exposed to natural phenomena, on these Paramount foundations –fundamental/elementary (cinematic)–: Architecture (form, structure, space)-, Light (color, reflexive image), Film (representation, duration), Art (Sense). From the Earth as a sensitive entity, the eco-sensical and biosemiotic contact [grounding] for the Sense of Art/Architecture and its external context. This process maintains a contemplative and silent visual line, in cadence, from dusk to night, with entities, beings and light; Variables.

The aim of making the video-work film in the highest 8K resolution –VistaVision [*] 35mm– [which allows scopic distance-space and the measure with details definition on the screen], is not limited to the documentary or the design(-itic) or fictitious cataloging of a archi-tectural work as a useful product or scenario and to its linear information or communication. An artistic-architectural object is projected [visual/silent/spatial/climate/Situationist/open sense]. Arranged by the apprehension and agency of the participants in front of the phenomena that affect the process of such object exposed to the Natural [in a tri-architectonic spatial projection, the video beam crosses 3 spaces on the lower-rear floor by Hi Lite next, where the Paramount film is exhibited for the first time: from 2 internal rooms –where the image is unstable, reflective and gets lost– towards an external patio open to the undecidable influence of Nature and plants].
Bringing the art object –in a discreet way–, from its architecture [from its reflective image: architetturalle] to its projection in sensical Live Situations. A sensical entity that relates the architectural sensibility of _se studio elementare with the ultimate artistic-aesthetic conundrum [and questioning] from aesthetics to art [and from the experimentation of art to philosophy and the rest of the imaginal practices], on the relationship between the production of [subjective] Sense with the ontic, external Natural, Free Other.




* VistaVision is a higher resolution, widescreen variant of the 35 mm motion picture film format which was created at Paramount Pictures in 1954.

** “Many artists and curators pursue research with experts like sociologists, anthropologists, political theorist, engineers, and philosophers. The collaborative work might focus on unfold histories and overlooked archives, or be niche studies in a field like astronomy, the climate, or urban planning. […] The research topic sometimes be-comes synonymous with the practice of an artists or a curator. It can be a project they have traced over years –entire careers– and pre-sented in various exhibitions and publications. […] It gives time, attention, space, and resources to this work, with the contemporary exhibition serving as a kind of showcase or clearinghouse.
[…] The following theorization responds to changes over the past three decades in modes of production where artsists and curators intentionally and strate-gically extend aesthetic engagement in contemporary art, from the sensual to the cognitive. It argues for a reconsideration of the centering of the epistemo-logical in contemporary art where complex propositions and projects […] are deployed using the mechanisms of exhibition. These propositions frequently manifest in the concerted coordination of exhibition and publication, suggesting that audiences are willing and able to reconcile a combination of both sensual and cognitive experiences with the work in order to access, engage, and transfrom the content offered into the knowledge.
[...] The exhibition, as a conceptual framework –as a thing– could thus be seen as a form of research and proposition.”

James Voorhies. Postsensual Aesthetics. On the Logic of the Curatorial. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MIT Press, USA, UK, 2023.



Paramount, un film di Iñigo Cabo per studioelementare

Inizia il crepuscolo chiudendo la notte con la luce, classicamente, ciclicamente. Gli uccelli poi partono, in sua diagonale al tetto, verso le luci della città sullo sfondo. Guardiamo da un’altra diagonale visiva –in un piano verticale– dal tetto al piano più basso dello specchio d’acqua nel patio e a tutti i riflessi e le forme, mentre l’alba irrompe. Un’immagine naturale, concreta, dal concreto di un edificio. Interni [Interiori], riflessi [UFO-lampade], osservatori da ogni piano al palcoscenico esterno dell’ampliamento -disegnato da Paolo Pasquini _se studio elementare- del Segreen Business Park, Segrate, Milano. Girando dal suo edificio, nella messa a terra del suo progetto con lo spazio, con il tempo storico-abitativo e con il contesto: i tetti di Luigi Caccia Dominioni e Vico Magistretti a San Felice e dall’altra parte il Palazzo Mondadori di Oscar Niemeyer. Con l’am-mirazione dello Skyline di Milano oltre l’orizzonte.

Scendiamo dal tetto a terra, ai movimenti di questo tempo contemplativo. Scala, distanza percorsa nello spazio, nel tempo per la persona. Il paesaggio esterno che guarda il nostro asse, movimento di mezzi e lavoratori. Una sezione con Antonioni e la sua rivisitazione in “La Notte”, del neorealismo italiano alla Straight Photography (“fotografia diretta”) del Novecento, e la sua anticipazione (più naturale e vivace) della Objektive, Direkt Fotografie del fine secolo scorso e inizi del presente, nella sua opposizione alla corrente del pittorialismo e in generale a ogni forma di manipolazione dell’immagine estranea alle specificità linguistiche e dell’architettura formale del mezzo [e all’immaginale ed architetturale –la immagine riflessiva che il soggetto costruisce nella sua visione del Reale–]. Immagine-tempo.
Risaliamo al tramonto, edifici distesi, un giorno, una espansione. Riflessi notturni sulla facciata, forme deittiche o simboli [Teistici] di luci iridescenti. Finisce il lavoro. Gli uccelli tornano e la notte va.

Paolo Pasquini _se studio elementare, apre le basi fondative della sua architettura(le) allo svolgersi progettuale di una opera d’arte, alla ricerca artistica di Iñigo Cabo [–sulla possibilità della compresenza del Senso antropico con il Non-senso libero della Natura], davanti al volume-modello/anatomia architettonica sensibile. I due progetti sono puri e chiaramente esposti ai fenomeni naturali, su queste basi Paramount –fondamentali/elementari (cinematic)–: Architettura (forma, struttura, spazio)-, Luce (colore, immagine riflessiva), Film (rappresentazione, durata), Arte (Senso). Dalla Terra come entità sensibile, il contat-to ecosensibile e biosemiotico [toccare terra] per il Senso dell’Arte/Architettura e il suo contesto esterno. Questo processo mantiene una linea visiva contemplativa e silenziosa, in cadenza, dal crepuscolo alla notte, con entità, esseri e luce; Variabili.

Lo scopo di realizzare il video-film d’opera nella più alta risoluzione 8K –VistaVision [*] 35mm– [che consente distanza-spazio escópico e la misura con la definizione dei dettagli sullo schermo], non si limita al documentario o alla catalogazione disegna-tizia o fittizia di un’opera architettonica come prodotto o scenario utile né alla sua informazione o comunicazione lineare. Si proietta un oggetto artistico-architetturale [di tempo contemplativo/muto/spaziale/Situazionista/senso aperto]. Disposto alla agenzia-mento [appre(he)nsione] dei partecipanti davanti ai fenomeni che incidono sul processo di tale oggetto esposto al Naturale [in una proiezione spaziale tri-architectonica, il fascio di videoproiezione attraversa 3 spazi al piano inferiore-posteriore di Hi-Lite next, dove il film Paramount si esibisce per la prima volta: da 2 stanze interne -qui l’immagine è instabile, riflessiva e si perde- verso un patio esterno aperto all’indecidibile incidenza della Natura e delle piante].
Portare l’oggetto d’arte -in maniera discreta-, dalla sua architettura [dalla sua immagine riflessiva: architetturale] alla sua proiezi-one in situazioni abitative di Senso. Un’entità che mette in relazione la sensibilità architettonica di _se studio elementare con l’ultima domanda [e questione] dall’estetica all’arte [dalla sperimentazione dell’arte alla filosofia e al resto delle pratiche immag-inali], sul rapporto tra la produzione e il Senso [soggettivo] con l’Altro ontico, Naturale esterno, Libero.




* VistaVision is a higher resolution, widescreen variant of the 35 mm motion picture film format which was created at Paramount Pictures in 1954.

** “Many artists and curators pursue research with experts like sociologists, anthropologists, political theorist, engineers, and philosophers. The collaborative work might focus on unfold histories and overlooked archives, or be niche studies in a field like astronomy, the climate, or urban planning. […] The research topic sometimes be-comes synonymous with the practice of an artists or a curator. It can be a project they have traced over years –entire careers– and pre-sented in various exhibitions and publications. […] It gives time, attention, space, and resources to this work, with the contemporary exhibition serving as a kind of showcase or clearinghouse.
[…] The following theorization responds to changes over the past three decades in modes of production where artsists and curators intentionally and strate-gically extend aesthetic engagement in contemporary art, from the sensual to the cognitive. It argues for a reconsideration of the centering of the epistemo-logical in contemporary art where complex propositions and projects […] are deployed using the mechanisms of exhibition. These propositions frequently manifest in the concerted coordination of exhibition and publication, suggesting that audiences are willing and able to reconcile a combination of both sensual and cognitive experiences with the work in order to access, engage, and transfrom the content offered into the knowledge.
[...] The exhibition, as a conceptual framework –as a thing– could thus be seen as a form of research and proposition.”

James Voorhies. Postsensual Aesthetics. On the Logic of the Curatorial. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MIT Press, USA, UK, 2023.