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From Vision to Knowledge: Patrick Geddes’ Outlook Tower (1892)

Scottish geographer, biologist, sociologist and town planner Patrick Geddes bought a tower next to the Edinburgh Castle in 1892. In over 20 years, he transformed it into an inhabitable device to illustrate his thoughts on visual faculties and the relationship between the individual and the exterior … Read More

Axonometric Realism: “Hortus Conclusus” by Beate Gütschow (2019)

Beate Gütschow is a German contemporary artist who works primarily through photography. In her work, she analyses the complex and ever-changing relationships between perception, representation … Read More

A Visual Thinking Strategy: Oswald Mathias Ungers, Morphologie: City Metaphors (1982)

German architect Oswald Mathias Ungers (1926–2007) accompanied his life-long architectural and theoretical production with a parallel work on found images which he would often compare … Read More

Symbolic Truth: Geometric Portraits by Indigenous Populations from Brazil.

Founded by Lina Bo and her husband Pietro Maria Bardi in 1950, the Brazilian magazine Habitat (“The magazine of the arts in Brazil”) manifested a … Read More

Mapping Fictional Realms: “Terram in Aspectu” by Liliana Farber (2019)

New Media artist Liliana Farber investigates the ways in which the virtual redefines the physical world. Using custom-made software and collected material from the Internet, … Read More

Color Schemes from Geology. A Work by Uibelakers (1781)

Franz Uibelakers was a German mineralogist. In his work, “System des Karlsbader Sinters” (1781) he presented sections of stalactites and stalagmites from the caverns of … Read More

Mary Ellen Solt, Moonshot Sonnet (1964)

The Moonshot Sonnet is a concrete poem composed in 1964 by poet Mary Ellen Solt (1920-2007). The work is a poem created reformatting diagrammatic codes … Read More

Two Exhibitions at Iris Clert Gallery, Paris: Yves Klein’s Le Vide (The Void, 1958) and Arman’s Le Plein (The Full-Up, 1960)

Recently my work with color has led me, in spite of myself, to search little by little, with some assistance (from the observer, from the … Read More

Inner Space (The Book)

We present Inner Space, an essay we have written in connection to the curatorship of the homonymous exhibition at the 2019 Lisbon Triennale. Inner Space is part of broader … Read More

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