Map of the World
Map of the World
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Map of the World, 2007

Loaned to
Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea
Description
iron, glass, graphite, acrylic, oil on paper mounted on wood panel
Dimensions

93.5inch x 98.7inch x 93.5inch

No. Elements
1
Object Type
installazione
Credits
©Franz Ackermann - Courtesy Castello di Rivoli Museo d'Arte Contemporanea, Rivoli-Torino foto di Paolo Pellion - Proprietà della Fondazione per l'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea CRT
The Artist
Upon winning a fellowship in 1991, Franz Ackermann chose to spend a period of time in Hong Kong, where he lived in a tiny hotel room. The artist then made a series of small works on paper, maps that he called “mental,” in order to emphasize their intimate and private scale. Almost like transpositions of views obtained under a microscope, each of these works on paper has a structure that can be traced back to that of a nerve cell, in this case organized around a nucleus that includes architectural details pertaining to the reality of the place. This process coincides with the transformation of the unknown into more familiar territory and into a gradual deployment of the artist’s imagination over the complex urban grid. [...]
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