COSMOPOLIS MALMÖ
Cosmopolis Malmö. 'Cosmos', denoting from many places and 'polis', plural poleis, means ‘city or an urban place' in ancient Greek.
October-November 2023 I was a guest Professor of Architecture at Lund University and Malmo (LSU) in Sweden. My accomodation was in an 1990's postmodern hotel structure in a location know as Trianglen near Malmo's city centre. The picture you see here is the view from my room. An interesting skyline merging day and night as often I was on meeting with colleagues back in Australia at the end of my day when Swedish friends and colleagues called it a day!
Eventually this painting became one of 4 which I consider the mid-night series in this exhibition. Three on the same wall and a fourth by the door as entering the Angela Robarts-Bird Gallery.
The darker squares and masked frames denote "la Sección Aurea" or Golden Ration. Mathematicians have studied the golden ratio's properties since antiquity. It is the ratio of a regular pentagon's diagonal to its side and thus appears in the construction of the dodecahedron, icosahedron or even a rectangle.
A golden rectangle may be cut into a square and a smaller
rectangle with the same aspect ratio. The golden ratio has been used to analyze
the proportions of natural objects and artificial systems such as financial
markets, in some cases based on dubious fits to data. The golden ratio appears
in some patterns in nature, including the spiral arrangement of leaves and
other parts of vegetation. Modernist 20th-century artists and architects,
including Le Corbusier and Oscar Niemeyer, artists such as Salvador Dalí or photographers
such as Henri Cartier-Bresson, have guided much of their works on the golden
ratio, believing it to be aesthetically pleasing. In my painting the square and
the fountain become the centrepieces or most important subset of the golden
ratio. Other subsets (or fractals) might be the lighted-windows on the buildings
denoting life and the pulse of the city.
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