"Federico Babina's Musealis illustration series reimagines seventeen of the world's most iconic as an imaginary black-and-white atlas, a visual journey. Each architectural illustration arises from the encounter between content and container. The architecture, with its geometries, both embraces and allows itself to be traversed by words, the titles of the most emblematic works housed within. No longer captions, but building blocks: the artworks transform into a plastic language, into lines, squares, curves, solids, and voids that construct the very image of the museum."
"The central metaphor is a two-way movement: sometimes the artwork adapts to the space that hosts it, as if the museum were an organism capable of shaping its own skin to embrace what it contains; other times, it is the space that sculpts itself around the artwork, becoming a sculpture itself. In this dialectic, museum and art merge into a single entity, a complex body in which one cannot exist without the other."
Musealis reimagines seventeen major museums as a black-and-white atlas where architecture and artwork titles become one graphic language. The architecture's geometries embrace and are traversed by the titles of emblematic works, which act no longer as captions but as building blocks that form lines, squares, curves, solids, and voids shaping each museum's image. Artwork words are freed from descriptive roles and become raw material, intertwining, overlapping, and folding into graphic rhythms that define building shapes. Museums function as narrative machines, where artworks and spaces alternately shape each other into a unified tapestry that stitches diverse heritage into continuous visual stories.
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