Officina delle Tangenti

In the Officina delle Tangenti wallpaper the wall becomes a drawing board: at the centre a single fixed point, from which the compass has raised concentric arcs widening into measured bands, like the circles of an orbit traced by a steady hand. In line and in measure I belong to constructivism: lines of constant weight, ticks and small marks at every intersection, as if the sheet still held the traces of the rule and the set square.

The chords close the arcs exactly at the point of tangency, taut as wires under load: where the arcs thicken on one side they build a dense, vibrating radial mass; on the other, finer lines and solitary chords thin out, letting the field breathe. Ruled black, construction red, ochre and steel grey sit on a warm white ground, flat, without shadow, with the precision that only the instrument — not inspiration — can give.

From a distance it is a single, clean gesture that fills the wall from edge to edge; close to you find the parallel hatching along some of the chords, the construction lines left unerased, the small discs marking centres and vertices — the memory of technical drawing carried into decoration. I wanted to return that discipline as a measure for any room, domestic or public, that asks for order without coldness. In every roll the same Officina delle Tangenti wallpaper comes from the craft work of WallZad, which turns the rigour of the line into matter for the wall, made to measure for those who inhabit space with precision and vision.