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Agostino Bonalumi — Relief Works
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Surface as Volume
OBS-ART-052
Material Intelligence
Atlas Index:
OBS-ART-052
Origin:
Italy
Era:
1960s–1980s
Themes / Lineage:
relief geometry • boundary pressure
Field Notes:
relief • tension • surface
Quiet Modernism appears here as volume emerging from surface.

Surface as Volume

Agostino Bonalumi — Relief Works

Thickness emerges from the plane.

Depth returns.

Volume holds.

How does depth return?
Surface is often flat, yet thickness emerges. Depth reappears without illusion. What continues is volume carried by plane.

Surface is often flat, yet thickness emerges.

Depth reappears without illusion.

What continues is volume carried by plane.

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