Flying Carpets, the seventh volume produced as part of Drago's
continuing collaboration with the French Academy in Rome - Villa
Medici, is the catalog for the exhibition of the same name, on
display from May 30th through October 21st, 2012. The book, edited
by Philippe-Alain Michaud, is made up of 144 pages with over 70
images and includes introductions by ric de Chassey, director of
the French Academy in Rome and Oliver Michelon, Director of the Mus
e des Abattoirs of Toulouse, as well as a critical essay by the
author. While modernist tradition maintains that the carpet was
used as a paradigm for the affirmation of flatness in painting, the
contrary may also be said; the flying carpet can be envisaged as a
way of introducing movement in surfaces that, by using the
properties of expansion and rotation, produces effects of floating,
disorientation or disequilibrium. Much like the flying carpet,
cinema can also involve properties or forces aimed at bringing
surfaces to life - unwinding, projecting, editing - that go beyond
the simple projection of a space standardized by the norms of
theatricality. Thus, both the exhibition and catalogue bring
together and compare real carpets and films. Carpets that,
according to their function, texture or composition, produce an
effect that enlivens the surfaces, and films that in this way can
be reconsidered from the ornamental point of view: monochrome
compositions evoking the undefined linear traces of Navajo blankets
(Paul Sharits, Nothing), blades of grass, leaves and insect wings
are directly stuck like a cinematographic equivalent of garden
carpets (Stan Brakhage, Mothlight), positive/negative inversions
producing an effect identical to that of retractable motifs (Peter
Kubelka, Adebar), overlapping borders (Hans Richter, Rhythm 21), ..
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