dino de simone
WRONG WAYS - ABERRATIONS - KULTURBUNKER STUTTGART 22-26.11.2025 in occasione della XXXIII edizione promossa dell'Associazione Architetti Artisti legata alle vicende di Ligne et Couleur di Parigi, un gruppo che si costituì nel 1935 come filiazione di un sodalizio di architetti riunitisi sotto il nome di Amants de la Nature nel 1881
Ispirata alla caffettiera “La Conica” di Aldo Rossi, l’opera fonde la torre del Castello di Lichtenstein con la scala elicoidale di Leonardo per Chambord. Un’architettura-oggetto che, dal fuoco alla base alla cupola celeste, racconta un’ascesa simbolica dalla terra al cosmo
Inspired by Aldo Rossi's ‘La Conica’ coffee maker, the work blends the tower of Lichtenstein Castle with Leonardo's spiral staircase for Chambord. An architectural object that, from the fire at the base to the celestial dome, recounts a symbolic ascent from earth to the cosmos in a hybrid of forms and functions.
Inside, like a secret heart, lies the spiral staircase designed by Leonardo da Vinci for the Château de Chambord: an ascending path that leads from the depths towards the light.
The result is a new organism, a hybrid of forms and functions, in which the tower-staircase serves as a metaphor for cosmic totality. The dome, inherited from the coffee pot, evokes a celestial vault that seems to stretch towards infinity, while at the base, the original fire preserves the vital force of this architecture, uniting earth and sky in a single gesture.
DINO DE SIMONE - TORRE LIECTHENSTEIN SCALA a doppia elica STAIRCASE TOWER 2025 . tempera and oil on canvas / cm 42X60h - video ANDREA DI TONDO
Aberrazioni della Conica is an audiovisual video mapping designed to interact with Dino de Simone's canvas, in which Aldo Rossi's “La Conica” coffee maker is transformed into a tower and urban micro-architecture.
The oval painting becomes the starting point for an immersive experience: two square spirals, rotated 180° relative to each other, unfold from the frame into space, creating a perspective tunnel that takes the viewer on an upward journey. The animation of the virtual chamber, which shifts from a telescopic view to a wide angle, accentuates the sensation of depth, keeping the frame of the painting constant and multiplying the space around it.
The sound design supports the narrative path: It opens with a deep white noise, primordial magma bubbling in the dark.
The magma becomes flame, the crackling merges with the sound of footsteps, as if walking up the Leonardo-esque spiral staircase evoked by the painting.
The footsteps transform into the sizzling of boiling water and the gurgling of rising coffee. Finally, the steam from the coffee pot dissolves into space, allowing a heavenly silence to emerge.
The light acts as a visual counterpoint: a glow in the background varies from red to blue, symbolising the transition from earthly fire to the sky, while two white lights guide the movement along the spirals.
The project embodies the theme Wrong Ways / Aberrations: the everyday function that is turned into a sublime monument, the staircase that becomes a labyrinth of possibilities, the sound and visual transformation that leads from lostness to revelation. Painting, architecture, and sound intertwine in a work that transforms the act of observing into a total sensory experience.