Mariana Gella

Mariana Gella

Architect, artist and designerLondon, United Kingdom
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Mariana Gella

Mariana Gella

Architect, artist and designerLondon, United Kingdom
Projects
  • A Bollywood Pilgrimage Tale - Digital Illustration
    A Bollywood Pilgrimage Tale - Digital IllustrationPassionate about Bollywood, Spirituality and Architecture, I started a research named “The parallelism between the mise en scène used in Hinduism rituals & Bollywood movies: How the stars are becoming new gods of India.” The common characteristics between the two fields which inspired this illustration are: - The set design techniques and aesthetics. - The wider experience surrounding the ritual. - The worship of the hero during and after the performance. These prints have a very special mean
  • Mandala
    MandalaPaper sculpture 2020 I have always been interested in culture, heritage and craftsmanship, and I think this project combines all these. Mandalas, usually painted in flat surfaces and used in meditation, represent 3D palaces where each element has a specific significance. I wanted to reinterpret and recreate a palace that could be contemplated from any angle, allowing the viewer to discover new layers of information and details by going around the piece. This mandala is a mix of all the things
  • Invisible Cities
    Invisible CitiesProject designed and produced in collaboration with Camille Benoit In Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino, the reader explores imagination through the descriptions of Marco Polo travels. The cities described are fictitious, that can be read as meditations on culture, time, memory, death or the general nature of human experience. Our take on this has been to explore the concept of space by meditating on concepts such as opulence, lightness, the negative space, and fragility among others. The resul
  • World architectures
    World architecturesThese collection of illustrations represent an opulent version of world architectures. Each building has something that makes it special. Either it's history, it's style or it's symbolism. By adding new details, and redefining the color-code, I intend to make these architectures even more appealing.
  • Wallpaper designs
    Wallpaper designs
  • Bollywood chariots
    Bollywood chariots
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Projects credited in
  • INIVISIBLES CITIES
    INIVISIBLES CITIESProject designed and produced in collaboration with Mariana Gella In Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino, the reader explores imagination through the descriptions of Marco Polo travels. The cities described are fictitious, that can be read as meditations on culture, time, memory, death or the general nature of human experience. Our take on this has been to explore the concept of space by meditating on concepts such as opulence, lightness, the negative space, and fragility among others. The result
  • Fear and Love
    Fear and LoveFear and Love: Reactions to a Complex World presents eleven new installations by some of the most innovative and thought-provoking designers and architects working today.
Work history
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    Architect2x4.org
     - Madrid, SpainFull Time
    Architect and Designer at 2x4.org
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    ArchitectOffice for Political Innovation
     - Madrid, SpainFreelance
    Production of the audio-visual installation Intimate Strangers, with Andrés Jaque, at the Design Museum of London
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Skills
  • Art
  • Drawing
  • Photoshop
  • Illustration
  • Illustrator
  • Architecture
  • 3D Modeling
  • Architectural Design
  • Art Curation
  • Painting
Education
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    ArchitectureNew School of Architecture and Design
     - San Diego, United States
    Architecture and Art International program exchange at the New School of Architecture+Design in San Diego, CA, U.S.A.
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    ARTSanta Fe University of Art and Design
     - Santa Fe, NM, USA
    Scholarship for art studies Santa Fe University of Art and Design, in Santa Fe, NM,U.S.A.
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