Studio Ponis: The Crystal and the Flame — Exhibition

On Saturday 21 and Sunday 22 June, Drawing Matter will present an exhibition of drawings from the collection for two early projects in Sardinia by Alberto Ponis and Annarita Zalaffi (Studio Ponis). The pin-up will focus on drawings for the Yacht Club Path (1965) and Casa Scalesciani (1977), including recently acquired material that Drawing Matter has not yet published. We will also be showing two short films by Team Shichai, originally made for the exhibition ‘Drawing Landscape’ at Tongji University (2023).

"I sometimes paint and draw subjects which are not architecture so I have the pleasure of drawing something which has the combination of geometric and informal lines. What Italo Calvino calls the crystal and the flame—the straight line and the free one—the combination of these two elements in the Sardinian landscape is very frequent. The rocks and vegetation are very informal, extravagant, imaginative and then there are the straight lines of the horizon over the sea, and of the building lines." — Alberto Ponis