You can learn more about the project from Puente’s official website here. Puente’s work is set to go on display in the San Miguel de Allende, Mexico on the 2nd February 2019. According to Puente, 'each illustration has a conceptual process, some of which take more time than others.' Usually 'I research, think, and ideate over each city for three weeks before making sketches.' The final drawings and cut-outs take around a week to produce. A literary thrillerabout a contemporarygallery owner plunged into a fascinating extinct worldEmili Rossell, the young owner of one of Barcelonas top galleries, receives an old manuscript written by an Italian architect about the 'Invisible City'an ambitious project dreamed up by King Charles III to build an alternative capital city in the Ebro delta. Invisible Cities, which imagines fictional conversations between the (real-life) Venetian explorer Marco Polo and the aged Mongol ruler Kublai Khan, has been instrumental in framing approaches to urban discourse and the form of the city.

Her collection, which ArchDaily published in 2016, and again in 2017, consists of mixed media collages, drawn mainly using ink on paper, brings together a sequence of imagined places – each referencing a city imagined in the book. In another tale, Polo tells Kublai of a city that was once peaceful, spacious, and rustic, only to become nightmarishly overpopulated in a matter of years (146–147).Lima-based architect Karina Puente has created a new series in her personal project: to illustrate each and every 'invisible' city from Italo Calvino's 1972 novel. Polo, at one point, recalls a city where household goods are replaced on a daily basis by newer models, where street cleaners “are welcomed like angels,” and where mountains of garbage can be seen on the horizon (114–116).

But it is also possible that Calvino is mixing historical details in order to comment indirectly on 20th-century social and economic issues.

His taste for confusing variety is very much in evidence in 'Invisible Cities,' where 13th-century explorer Marco Polo describes skyscrapers, airports, and other technological developments from the modern era. 13.99 Ebook Free sample Switch to the audiobook About this ebook arrowforward Italo Calvino's beloved, intricately crafted novel about an Emperor's travelsa brilliant journey across far-off. Italian author Italo Calvino (1923–1985) began his career as a writer of realistic stories, then developed an elaborate and intentionally disorienting manner of writing that borrows from canonical Western literature, from folklore, and from popular modern forms such as mystery novels and comic strips. As Kublai speculates, 'perhaps this dialogue of ours is taking place between two beggars named Kublai Khan and Marco Polo as they sift through a rubbish heap, piling up rusted flotsam, scraps of cloth, wastepaper, while drunk on the few sips of bad wine, they see all the treasure of the East shine around them' (104). Calvino scholar Peter Washington maintains that 'Invisible Cities' is 'impossible to classify in formal terms.' But the novel can be loosely described as an exploration-sometimes playful, sometimes melancholy-of the powers of the imagination, of the fate of human culture, and of the elusive nature of storytelling itself. And even though some of the cities that Polo evokes for the aging Kublai are futuristic communities or physical impossibilities, it is equally difficult to argue that 'Invisible Cities' is a typical work of fantasy, science fiction, or even magical realism. Although Calvino uses historical personages for his main characters, this dreamlike novel does not really belong to the historical fiction genre.

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