Wallpaper
Super Series Colonnade
“Colonnade”, a remaking of Bernini’s Saint Peter's Colonnade, Rome
EXHIBITED AT
Collection of Musèe des Arts Décoratifs, Paris
Ralph Pucci Gallery, New York, 2016
Super series
The Super Series for Flavor Paper is a voyage from Nosanchuk’s home base of New York City to the churches of Rome, taking elements from wood benches and stained glass windows to skylights and sculptures and re-imagining them in hand crafted, kaleidoscopic patterns that have a distinctly digital feel. Each pattern, a product of Nosanchuk’s own photographs, multiplied and playfully assembled, is truly two papers in one – from a distance the designs are abstract and textural, but as the viewer approaches, details like windows, columns and apses emerge allowing a glimpse into the subject’s former life.
The interplay of light and architecture, a recurring theme through the designer’s career, informs his new “Super Series” of wallpapers for Brooklyn, NY-based wallcoverings manufacturer Flavor Paper. The collection is an architectural voyage from Nosanchuk’s home base of New York City to the churches of Rome, taking elements from wood benches and stained glass windows to skylights and sculptures and re-imagining them in hand crafted, kaleidoscopic patterns that have a distinctly digital feel.
The blueprint for the collection crystallized for Nosanchuk following a trip to Rome, where the designer spent time photographing architectural icons including the Pantheon, Borromini’s Quattro Fontane Church, and Bernini’s Colonnade at St. Peter’s Basilica, and studying the way the light illuminated and enhanced each structure’s unique details. Playing with his own photographs one night, he discovered that he could cut, reposition and repeat existing elements in the images to create an entirely new architecture.