The Evening Line and The Garden of Earthly Delights

Apart from being an autonomous structure conceived for the Biennial, The Evening Line is also a portion of a larger structure – potentially the size of the universe, through the application of fractal geometry –, entitled The Morning Line.

The Morning Line will be inaugurated at the Contemporary Art Biennial of Seville entitled YOUniverse on October 1st. It is a highly complex “anti pavilion” (Matthew Ritchie) in which a great variety of interdisciplinary reflections converge. Among these, fractal geometry is the bond linking The Evening Line in Venice and The Morning Line in Seville. Both are infinitely modular constructions, built from a single shape called “the bit” that derives from a truncated tetrahedron and was developed by the architectural duo Aranda/Lasch with Arup AGU.

Matthew Ritchie’s visual language maps onto the bits to make The Evening Line a true unification of expression and structure. This synthetic process is accomplished by applying certain geometric constraints to his drawings so that as they grow and change, every line connects to every other line to form a larger picture and a structural framework. Geometry and expression become one.