About the work

The city is opening.

In Bloom, Di Nicolantonio abandons mass and density and reaches instead for the sky a composition of soaring blade-like forms that rise and interlock with the unhurried confidence of something in the process of becoming. Curved walkways thread between the vertical fins at mid-height, their surfaces dense with the most saturated, most alive vegetation in the entire Futuropia Cities series. The green here is not accent or gesture. It is exuberance.

This is architecture conceived in the vocabulary of botany. The structural blades read as petals in mid-opening not yet fully deployed, caught in the precise instant between bud and flower when potential is at its maximum. The interlocking geometry at their base suggests roots, or a stem, or the kind of structural logic that nature arrived at long before engineers did.

Where Morphe built downward into geological density, Bloom builds upward toward atmospheric lightness. Where Verdania contained an entire world, Bloom proposes a single gesture vertical, optimistic, reaching. It is the most joyful work in the Futuropia Cities series. And in a collection that has asked many difficult questions about the future, joy is not a small thing.

An original drawing from the Futuropia Cities series by artist-futurist Sébastien Di Nicolantonio.

Edition Unique original — one of a kind

Signature Hand-signed by the artist

Authentication Sold with certificate of authenticity and gallery invoice

Technique Original drawing — pen and watercolor on paper

Dimensions 29.7 × 42 cm — A3 format

Framing Unframed — framing available upon request