From the orthogonal views of some of the Fpt Industrial propulsion units, the Italian artists Van Orton have made a small revolution
There’s something profoundly poetic about the gesture that transforms the forms of an engine into a work of art. Starting with orthogonal views of some of FPT Industrial’s propulsion units, the Italian artists Van Orton have accomplished a small revolution by extracting from the functional essence of mechanical assemblies a purely aesthetic component linked to the forms, remodeled in a play of multifaceted colors.
Each section of the engine, from the pulleys to the cylinder heads, become pieces of a vibrant mosaic, defining a cultural short circuit in which industrial three-dimensionality is reduced to a surface, yet acquires a new depth: that of the symbol. In this transformation, the Van Ortons play with shapes and colors, initially inspired by pop art, with echoes of artists like Andy Warhol or Roy Lichenstein, but actually drawing on something more archaic, rooted in the eleventh century. When the grandeur of Gothic cathedrals required the invention of new filters to dissolve the external light, defining the invention of that glass art in which the fragmentation of the mosaic married chromaticism.
Today, the front view of an F-28, the side view of a Nef, and the bird’s-eye view of an XC-13 become 21st-century Gothic stained-glass windows. A triptych composing the orthogonal projections of a modern epic that no longer speaks of saints and kings, but of progress and the power disciplined by the human mind.
Title: When mechanics becomes art with Fpt
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