Visual artist, architect, and designer Federico Babina recently presented an intriguing project that saw him creating minimalistic illustrations of metropolitan cityscapes.
Babina represented the cityscapes of famous cities like Barcelona, Paris, London, Rome, and New York City, among others, as densely packed patchworks. They consist of patches of color and outlines of buildings, streets, and public places organized into a single piece of art.
Despite the minimalistic approach, you’ll easily spot the famous landmarks like Sagrada Familia, the Eiffel Tower, Big Ben, the Colosseum, and the Empire State Building that dominate the cityscapes of particular locations.
According to Babina, the project represents “an illustrated exercise” through which he attempted to transform “the chaos of everyday life into a structured but spontaneous order.”
“13 portraits of metropolis where I grasp elements and details I relate them, recreate them, synthesize them, and shape them into a personal form to return a small snapshot that tries to photograph a tile of this varied mosaic. Spatially complex paintings, similar to a collage, depicting a bold and metropolitan space made of streets, symbols, buildings and empty spaces,” Babina shares about the project.
Continue scrolling to check out all of the entries from Babina’s “Cityscape” series.
