{"id":83,"date":"2025-11-03T17:47:36","date_gmt":"2025-11-03T17:47:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.danilotorre.it\/?p=83"},"modified":"2025-11-03T18:06:20","modified_gmt":"2025-11-03T18:06:20","slug":"ucronia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.danilotorre.it\/en\/ucronia\/","title":{"rendered":"Uchronia"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Images from a parallel time<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The concept of alternate history<\/a><\/em> \u2014 the construction of alternative scenarios starting from minimal deviations from history \u2014 offers the possibility of interrogating the linearity of time and opening up parallel universes, similar to the real one but subtly different. This is a critical exercise that does not aim to falsify the past, but rather to reveal its latent potentialities, the junctures at which the narrative could have taken other forms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Within this perspective fits the project Tamed Archive-ucronie by Danilo Torre, which stems from a \u201cwandering and stray\u201d archive: a heterogeneous collection of lost and forgotten visual materials that have survived time without a precise location. The artist intervenes on these fragments of collective and private memory, transforming them and returning them to the public in a new form, capable of generating novel narratives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The images \u2014 sourced from impossible archives, ancient glass plates or photographic enlargements \u2014 undergo a printing process in handmade cyanotype<\/strong>, a historical technique that evokes the idea of blueprint<\/em>, meaning both design and trace at the same time. This process accentuates the suspended character of the images, which seem to come from a time outside of time, ready to graft themselves onto a parallel dimension.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Foundation<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

blueprint on paper<\/p>\n\n\n\n

30\u00d720<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Online Portfolio<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

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40\u00d730<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Idea<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

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METROPOLIS<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

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CHRONONAUT_blueprint on paper_40X30 <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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TIME TRAVELLER_blueprint on paper_20X30 <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Rose Hobart_blueprint on paper_20X30 <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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TIME TRAVELLER_blueprint on paper_40X30 <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Metropolis blueprint on paper 40x30 <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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NAKED TIME_blueprint on paper_20X30 <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u00abUchronia is nothing more than a game. Unplayable by nature, because it is impossible to revoke the irrevocable, and yet serious. It is always sad<\/strong>\u00bb.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

This sentence underlines the paradox of alternate history (imagining how history would have turned out if a decisive event had gone differently): it is an intellectual exercise which, despite being fictitious and impossible to achieve, carries with it a sense of melancholy and seriousness, linked to the regret for what might have been.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Emmanuel Carr\u00e8re<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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Immagini da un tempo parallelo Il concetto di ucronia \u2014 la costruzione di scenari alternativi a partire da deviazioni minime della storia \u2014 offre la possibilit\u00e0 di interrogare la linearit\u00e0 del tempo e di aprire a universi paralleli, simili al reale ma sottilmente differenti. Si tratta di un esercizio critico che non mira a falsificare […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37,39],"tags":[27,29,21,31,25,35,33,17],"class_list":["post-83","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-artwork","category-artwork-artwork","tag-art","tag-blueprint","tag-carrere-2","tag-cyanotype","tag-sci-fi","tag-singulart","tag-time-travel","tag-ucronia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danilotorre.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danilotorre.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danilotorre.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danilotorre.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danilotorre.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.danilotorre.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":103,"href":"https:\/\/www.danilotorre.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83\/revisions\/103"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danilotorre.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danilotorre.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danilotorre.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83"}],"curies":[{"name":"well played","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}