The Mutanda Tree- A Christmas Manifesto of Globism

A Christmas Manifesto of Globism

Headline: Dressing the Sacred: Why the Christmas Tree is Wearing Lace 

This work is a cornerstone of the Mutanda Buildings cycle, where Enrico Thanhoffer Munico (alias Fanty Building) executes a form of "semantic guerrilla warfare" against architectural and cultural conventions.

Within this cycle, the artist operates on two levels of subversion:

• The Underwear as the First House: In Thanhoffer’s vision, underwear is the most intimate garment—the membrane separating the individual from the world. By elevating it to the base of a Christmas tree, he transforms private intimacy into a public, monumental structure.

• Stripping the Solemnity: Dressing a global icon like the Christmas tree in yellow lace "unveils" its fragility. It strips away the distant solemnity of the symbol, returning it to a human and ironically vulnerable dimension.

The spiral-shaped tree is the perfect visual representation of Globism, the movement founded by the artist:

• Critique of Minimalism: While modern architecture often leans toward the aseptic and the uniform (the "white cube"), Fanty Building’s Globism explodes into a "Fantasy" (Fanty) of fragmented colors, textures, and patterns.

• Global Identity: The colored spiral is not merely decorative; it is a manifesto against homogenization. Each chromatic fragment represents a diversity that refuses to be standardized.

• The Revisited Icon: The Christmas tree—a symbol that is both sacred and commercial—is placed upon a "low" element (yellow lace underwear). This creates a semantic short-circuit: the yellow hue recalls the gold of sacred tradition, but the form belongs to the sphere of intimacy and seduction.

• Digital Hyperrealism: The work utilizes a highly detailed material rendering. The viewer can almost feel the texture of the lace and the gloss of the colors, a typical strategy in Thanhoffer’s style to make an absurd idea feel tangibly real.

In summary, this work is an ironic attack on the rigidity of contemporary design. It proposes a world that is more colorful, "dressed," and deeply connected to the private sphere of the human experience.

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