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In this piece I commented on the established cartographic and cultural conventions in the most obvious way: I used a cylinder Gall-Peters projection, which differs from the ubiquitous Mercator projection in that it gives a more-or-less accurate (though some distortion nevertheless remains) representation of the size of the continents. The widely used Mercator Map unjustly enlarges the Northern Hemisphere at the expense of teh Southern, which makes the main continents of the Western Civilization – Europe and North America – appear larger with respect to, for example, Africa or South America. In order to further stress my point, I turned the map upside down so as to remove another convention, which is placing North atop. Another thing…
In this piece I commented on the established cartographic and cultural conventions in the most obvious way: I used a cylinder Gall-Peters projection, which differs from the ubiquitous Mercator projection in that it gives a more-or-less accurate (though some distortion nevertheless remains) representation of the size of the continents. The widely used Mercator Map unjustly enlarges the Northern Hemisphere at the expense of teh Southern, which makes the main continents of the Western Civilization – Europe and North America – appear larger with respect to, for example, Africa or South America. In order to further stress my point, I turned the map upside down so as to remove another convention, which is placing North atop. Another thing…
In this piece I commented on the established cartographic and cultural conventions in the most obvious way: I used a cylinder Gall-Peters projection, which differs from the ubiquitous Mercator projection in that it gives a more-or-less accurate (though some distortion nevertheless remains) representation of the size of the continents. The widely used Mercator Map unjustly enlarges the Northern Hemisphere at the expense of teh Southern, which makes the main continents of the Western Civilization – Europe and North America – appear larger with respect to, for example, Africa or South America. In order to further stress my point, I turned the map upside down so as to remove another convention, which is placing North atop. Another thing…
In this piece I commented on the established cartographic and cultural conventions in the most obvious way: I used a cylinder Gall-Peters projection, which differs from the ubiquitous Mercator projection in that it gives a more-or-less accurate (though some distortion nevertheless remains) representation of the size of the continents. The widely used Mercator Map unjustly enlarges the Northern Hemisphere at the expense of teh Southern, which makes the main continents of the Western Civilization – Europe and North America – appear larger with respect to, for example, Africa or South America. In order to further stress my point, I turned the map upside down so as to remove another convention, which is placing North atop. Another thing…
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Miljenko Šimić

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Size: 98 W x 62 H x 2 D in

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In this piece I commented on the established cartographic and cultural conventions in the most obvious way: I used a cylinder Gall-Peters projection, which differs from the ubiquitous Mercator projection in that it gives a more-or-less accurate (though some distortion nevertheless remains) representation of the size of the continents. The widely used Mercator Map unjustly enlarges the Northern Hemisphere at the expense of teh Southern, which makes the main continents of the Western Civilization – Europe and North America – appear larger with respect to, for example, Africa or South America. In order to further stress my point, I turned the map upside down so as to remove another convention, which is placing North atop. Another thing…

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Multi-paneled Painting:Oil on Canvas

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Size:98 W x 62 H x 2 D in

Number of Panels:2

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I live and work in Zagreb, Croatia. I was first schooled in Business & Economics at Sophia University Japan, where I had lived for the most part of the 1990s. Then, upon returning home, I pursued a career in Croatian civil service. I have spent 6 or 7 years working in the bleak government bureaucracy during the 2000s. Upon realization that it wasn't really for me, I took a part-time job with a publishing company (mostly translating business and economics books) and enrolled into the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb, a respected institution dating back to 1907, where I majored in painting. In my art I try to pass on what I think I know about the worldly affairs, and the precariousness affecting the ailing human society and the natural environment. I try to combine these topics with my understanding of the philosophy of art and finally strive to produce work possessing a measure of conceptual/visual integrity.

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