Art to narrate transformation, Carlo Stanga for LAND

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Passionate about drawing since he was a boy, to later pursue a career in architecture, Carlo Stanga shares his time between Italy and Germany. At some point, his talent and work as illustrator supplanted that of architect, in the sense that illustration expressed architecture as content. As Stanga explains, "This work is tailor-made for me, where I can indulge in many passions: illustration, architecture, urban planning, travel, cinema, literature." Carlo Stanga's works have been published all over the world, and have received numerous awards and recognitions. Some of his most famous works include the book "New York in Style", which gathers a series of illustrations of iconic places in the Big Apple.

Venise, la ville à la mer", which charmingly depicts the canals and streets of Venice; and "I love Paris", which celebrates the beauty and elegance of the city of love. The theme of the city is predominant in Stanga's Phone Number List repertoire and, for this very reason, seeing a series of works instead focused on landscapes was quite a special experience. Asked to illustrate LANDmagazine, the magazine published by the international landscape consulting company LAND, Carlo Stanga proposed "WanderWorld", a title that "suggests wandering in the the landscape, an unplanned journey that leaves room for the pleasure of serendipity", as the illustrator explains.



And what better place than the Wunderkammer, the LAND exhibition space, conceived by Andreas Kipar, CEO and co-founder of the studio, to share these wonders with the public of Milan Design Week ? The installation was created thanks to the collaboration with Spazio, a partner of the project. Large images printed on a cotton canvas support depict, in a refreshingly current way, a journey to discover the landscape around us beyond the city. Because examining the contemporary landscape and the intra-urban and regional dimension, as well as the new relationships between human beings and nature, often intimately linked and indistinguishable, becomes increasingly important and urgent if we want to change course.