Masterclass - Carlo Stanga
Print Club Torino hosted Carlo Stanga's Masterclass “Le città trasparenti – Sky in a Room” (Transparent Cities – Sky in a Room), a workshop dedicated to urban design through observation and visual stratification.
The artist
Carlo Stanga is an illustrator and architect with a deep passion for the city as a living, narrative space. After studying architecture at the Politecnico di Milano and illustration at the Scuola Superiore d'Arte del Castello Sforzesco, he developed a personal visual language that blends technical precision and artistic sensitivity. He collaborates with major international publications such as The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal, and is the author of illustrated books that depict contemporary metropolises. His research intertwines observation and imagination, exploring the city as an emotional as well as a physical place.
Drawing as biography
Carlo Stanga recounted his artistic journey, made up of travels, encounters and passions that have contributed to shape his distinctive style. As in a freehand drawing, he showed how his passions for illustration, architecture and the city have intertwined, giving rise to a personal and recognisable body of work. The masterclass explored with participants the many possibilities of representing cities as complex and layered places, through research, experimentation and observation, with the aim of defining an urban identity made up of shapes, lines and presences.
From observation to creation
A visual journey through art, photography and cinema was undertaken, exploring how cities have been portrayed over time and how their identity emerges through lights, colours and evocative details. Inspired by these reflections, representations of real or imagined cities were created, born from intuition and personal exploration. The images were deconstructed, the scenes broken down into multiple layers, while experimenting with transparencies, depth and moving figures to capture urban complexity. Finally, the use of different colour techniques gave the drawings energy, atmosphere and expressive intensity.
