Lego-Scale Architecture Made Large
LOS ANGELES — Brazilian artist Valentino Fialdini, who specializes in architectural photography, has made some works of his own using Lego.
LOS ANGELES — I remember when Legoland first opened in Southern California. The premise was quite simple: Remember all those great Legos you played with when you were little? Well, now that you’re bigger, you can play in a whole land of them.
A recent post on My Modern Metropolis tipped me off the work of Brazilian artist Valentino Fialdini. Fialdini, who specializes in architectural photography, told Modern Met that the Lego pieces were an attempt to create his own architecture. He captures these mini worlds and then blows them up in large photos, causing a distortion in perspective that makes them feel life size.
I particularly enjoyed the minimalist hallways he’s created. They remind me of white box galleries with a splash of color at the end of a long sterile hallway. Indeed, these ones seem less like Lego structures and more like buildings in themselves, until you start paying closer attention to the reflection of the materials. And that’s when you realize that, yep, they are indeed Legos.
