Showing posts with label mapping. Show all posts
Showing posts with label mapping. Show all posts
Monday, November 18, 2013
Nobutaka Aozaki
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From Artist's website:
Questions, various pens and paper
10' x 3' 2" Dimensions variable
10' x 3' 2" Dimensions variable
A map of Manhattan composed of hand-drawn maps by various New York pedestrians whom the artist asked for directions.
Pretending to be a tourist by wearing a souvenir cap and carrying a shopping bag of Century 21, a major tourist shopping place, I ask various New York pedestrians to draw a map to direct me to another location. I connect and place these small maps based on actual geography in order to make them function as parts of a larger map.
(image as of June 15th, 2012)
(image as of June 15th, 2012)
Jules de Balincourt
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| US World Studies #1, 2003, Oil and spray paint on panel, 44x34in |
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| We Warned You About China, 2007, Oil and enamel on panel, 80x70in (203x177.8cm) |
Thursday, October 24, 2013
Beth Campbell
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| My potential future based on present circumstances (1/07/09), pencil on paper, 50 x 38.5 inches, 2009 (detail) |
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| My potential future based on present circumstances (1/07/09), pencil on paper, 50 x 38.5 inches, 2009 |
Sunday, September 8, 2013
Hyperallergic/Famous Artists Asked to Draw a Map of the US from Memory
Takahashi Hisachika illustrates the concept of his From Memory project (all images courtesy Sean Kelly gallery)
Jorge Luis Borges’ well-known short story “On Exactitude in Science” describes a faded Empire in which a Cartographer’s Guild had attained such fidelity in their trade that tattered maps were perfectly superimposed upon the mouldering ruin of the land itself. An exhibition opening September 13 at Sean Kelly gallery imagines the inverse, pairing memory and cartography to explore the abstractions produced when mental and physical space are entwined. The show, titled From Memory, presents a 1971–1972 project by Takahashi Hisachika in which the Japanese artist, then living in New York, asked 22 of his peers to draw the United States from memory.
That group included a number of significant participants, including Jasper Johns, Joseph Kosuth, Robert Rauschenberg, and Gordon Matta-Clark. Each respondent imbued their drawing with the kinks of their memory and the idiosyncrasies of their aesthetic expression, each map a depiction of physical territory as mediated by an indelible and highly personal process of knowing and remembering.
Cy Twombly
James Rosenquist (recto)
Dorothea Rockburne
Robert Rauschenberg
Gordon Matta-Clark
Mel Bochner
Joseph Kosuth
From Memory is on view at Sean Kelly gallery (475 Tenth Avenue, Chelsea, Manhattan) from September 13 through October 19, with an opening reception on September 12 from 6–8pm.
Wednesday, August 21, 2013
Nobutaka Aozaki
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From Artist's website:
Questions, various pens and paper
10' x 3' 2" Dimensions variable
10' x 3' 2" Dimensions variable
A map of Manhattan composed of hand-drawn maps by various New York pedestrians whom the artist asked for directions.
Pretending to be a tourist by wearing a souvenir cap and carrying a shopping bag of Century 21, a major tourist shopping place, I ask various New York pedestrians to draw a map to direct me to another location. I connect and place these small maps based on actual geography in order to make them function as parts of a larger map.
(image as of June 15th, 2012)
(image as of June 15th, 2012)
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