The experimental video Logos (2014) and the painting series Evolutionary Conditions of Nature (2016–2024) are part of the artistic research of Leonardo Mancini, architect and interdisciplinary author. His practice explores the relationships between energy, matter and consciousness, probing their common generative order.

Logos was created through live filming and direct experimentation with elementary physical phenomena. The video investigates the organising principle underlying natural processes, observing how complex configurations may emerge from minimal conditions and suggesting an essential continuity between existence and the cosmic dimension.

Evolutionary Conditions of Nature is the painting series within Contact, the second chapter of a wider, ongoing project. Here, the inquiry continues on an evolutionary level, approaching the universal continuum as a unifying fabric of biological systems and fundamental structures. The series freely reinterprets the scale proposed in 1964 by astronomer Nikolai Kardashev to classify civilisations by their use of energy, reading it as an expression of the cosmic Logos, in which every entity participates in a relational flow that transcends the boundaries of space-time.

Logos (1 minute 21 seconds) moves between footage recorded outdoors and scenes constructed indoors with everyday objects, light and reflections. Filmed live and presented in black and white, it creates visual associations between natural forms and images produced through direct physical experimentation. The work explores how these associations can shift our perception of nature, form and meaning.

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All text and images copyright and courtesy of Leonardo Mancini

Art, Consciousness, Imagination, Nature, video