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Spaces Left Behind: Paintings by Zsofia Schweger

July 1, 2018 by Mariabruna Fabrizi 2 Comments

Zsofia Schweger is a Hungarian artist who currently lives and works in London. Her still life paintings of empty interior spaces talk subtly about the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Architecture, Art, Housing the Isolated Individual, Visual Atlas Tagged With: colors, domestic, Interiors, map, still life

“Ueno Planet for Exhibition” by Haruka Misawa

May 17, 2016 by Mariabruna Fabrizi 2 Comments

"Ueno Planet for Exhibition" is a collection of posters and brochures by Japanese designer Haruka Misawa and her office, the Misawa Design Institute. … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Architecture, Art, Representation: Axonometric projection, Territories Tagged With: drawings, graphic design, map, posters

Pirro Ligorio’s “Antiquae Urbis Romae Imago” (Image of the Ancient City of Rome), 1561

March 13, 2016 by Mariabruna Fabrizi 1 Comment

In 1551, Pirro Ligorio produced an engraving depicting a reconstruction of ancient Rome; this inventive map was printed by Jacopo Rossi in 1561. Pirro … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Architecture, Territories Tagged With: map

Gordon Matta-Clark’s “Reality Properties: Fake Estates” (1973)

October 22, 2014 by Mariabruna Fabrizi Leave a Comment

Starting in the summer of 1973, artist Gordon Matta-Clark purchased fifteen lots in the city of New York, fourteen in Queens and one in Staten Island. … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Architecture, Art, Territories Tagged With: conceptual, form of form, land art, map, New York, property

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The Three Mawangdui Maps: Early Chinese Cartography

March 2, 2014 by Fosco Lucarelli Leave a Comment

  Between 1972 to 1974 three tombs in the archaeological site of Mawangdui, China, were excavated. In one of them, the archaeologists … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Cartographies of Reality and Fiction, Culture, Territories Tagged With: Cartography, China, early map, form of form, map

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