The Capriccio is a desire for hyper and symultaneous reality, and therefore a sublime fantasy.
It is a representational mode that collapses both space and time, in which everything is possible and nothing is negated. Its origins are found in the 17th century Grand Tour and spring out of necessity.
During their journey, and passionate to take a timeless record of it, the wealthy traveller, in the absence of unlimited digital photography, would commission a painting that would collapse their itinerary and favorite sites which he had visited into one synthetizing view. In other words they tried to get "more ruins for your buck". In the process, some of the greatest illusionary views in the history of painting were born: non-chronological, full of allegory and deeply modern in their agency.
My journey and Capriccio start here...
Giovanni Paolo Panini_Capriccio
The ruins of the crystal-like, diagonal embrassing and ortho defying structures of today and yesterday.
On a second thought, a ruin capriccio should not be made in a lifeless setting like the snows of the north pole, it should be in a place full of life to counteract with the lifeless, forgotten and broken ruins. Jungle will be next.
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