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„… every map displays a specific world; so does it display the world as it is, as it was, as it will be, as it could be, or as it should be?“ (Christian Jacob: Towards a Cultural History of Cartography, 1996) One of the peculiar phenomena of European science, literature and art since the 19th century is the persistent presence of figures who work as field surveyors and who optionally measure or redesign the topography of real and fictional spaces. This not only coincides with one of the biggest field surveyor expeditions of the Modern Era: Before Alexander Humboldt set out on the trip to South America (1799-1804), he had written a letter to his Berlin bankers, in which he formulated his travel destination: "I will collect plants and animals, examine the warmth, elasticity, magnetic and electrical content of the atmosphere, dissect them, determine geographical longitudes and latitudes and measure mountains (…)“ The British field surveyor Sir George Everest was largely responsible for surveying the meridian arc from the southernmost point of India north to Nepal, which took him almost 40 years. Even though he had nothing to do with the discovery and measurement of Mount Everest itself, the highest mountain in the Himalayas was named after him. Already in 1669 Vermeer van Delft had finished his iconic painting The Geographer, on which the displayed protagonist leans thoughtfully over maps and papers, the dividers in his hand. In the background there are maps laying all over the floor and hanging on the wall. Mapping becomes an external reality and archival device for objective knowledge and reality. „Maps are statements about the physical nature of the world, its shape and its limits. They display beliefs or concepts about the nature of the world and how it can be depicted.“ (Christian Jacob) German-language literature impressively documents the continuity of field surveyors as a fictional figure: the protagonist in Franz Kafka's “Schloss”; Goethe's Faust (notice the Rembrandt etching of Faust, depicted in almost the same pose as the Geographer at Vermeer's painting); Hauke Haien in Theodor Storm's “Schimmelreiter” or the unequal pair of Gauß and Humboldt in Daniel Kehlmann's "Die Vermessung der Welt". The work LANDVERMESSER plays with several respective ideas of the predictability, representability and controllability (or uncontrollability) of the world. LANDVERMESSER (7/10) is a handprint in stone grey, with high pigmented oil-based inks on 220g/m2 german Hahnemühle paper.
2020
Woodcut on Paper
10
36.6 W x 53.1 H x 0.1 D in
Not Framed
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Stefan Osnowski is a German visual artist using one of the oldest reproduction processes to create an extremely filigree, digitally appearing, ultra-modern aesthetic. He exclusively uses the centuries-old technique of woodblock printing. Osnowski is investigating digital codes to transform it into analog ones to represent phenomenas such as time, movement and spaces in a two dimensional image frame. The transformation of the original image into an abstract binary bar code - 1 or 0 – carved into the wooden panel and printed by hand; gathering a theme or selecting a medium is just as much a part of the concept as physical contact and hand-crafting. He is living and working in Lisbon (Portugal).
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