Medir la geografía: nuevos territorios
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In any scenario of uncertainty, art, like other fields of knowledge and practice, is called upon to respond to the old but ever-renewed urgency of standing at the height of events. Whatever that may mean: perhaps to understand them and respond with commitment. Curiously, from the perspective of artistic practice, more interesting than that abstract height, which is no more than a regulating idea, might be height as a dimensional extension of space: that which is concrete and capable of being measurable.
It was thanks to such height that Eratosthenes of Cyrene was able to calculate, with surprising accuracy, the circumference of the Earth over two thousand years ago, by observing the dance of shadows during the summer solstice. In his map of the known world, the Earth appears as a heavy creature, a sluggish animal whose body is traversed by rivers, pierced by seas and surrounded by oceans. It is an early representation of the world as an island. This exhibition brings together aesthetic…
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Medir la geografía: nuevos territorios
Press Release
In any scenario of uncertainty, art, like other fields of knowledge and practice, is called upon to respond to the old but ever-renewed urgency of standing at the height of events. Whatever that may mean: perhaps to understand them and respond with commitment. Curiously, from the perspective of artistic practice, more interesting than that abstract height, which is no more than a regulating idea, might be height as a dimensional extension of space: that which is concrete and capable of being measurable.
It was thanks to such height that Eratosthenes of Cyrene was able to calculate, with surprising accuracy, the circumference of the Earth over two thousand years ago, by observing the dance of shadows during the summer solstice. In his map of the known world, the Earth appears as a heavy creature, a sluggish animal whose body is traversed by rivers, pierced by seas and surrounded by oceans. It is an early representation of the world as an island. This exhibition brings together aesthetic…
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