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Original artwork description:
From the series “Code”, oil and graphite pencil on paper, 30 x 30 cm.
A map is an imprint, a sign of man in the landscape. An alien intelligence, observing our cities from the great distances of the space, could interpret them as the characters of an alphabet, sort of messages, a code of signs, each one different from the other, each with its own meaning and its own syntax. This hypothetical alien presence may not even realize that these cities have a purpose and a function, which are the product of the way we have adapted to live on this planet, but it could engage in an attempt to interpret this unknown language, identifying the alphabet and associating to each character a precise meaning. We will still be able to understand and share this new meanings, or will they have lost any sense for us?
Materials used:
oil and graphite pencil on paper
Tags:
#cypher #urban #city #town #map #geography #mapping #city abstract #code #plancypher number 18 - Boston (2014)
Oil painting
by Federico Cortese
29 Artist Reviews
£230.16 Sold
- Oil painting on Paper
- One of a kind artwork
- Size: 30 x 30 x 0.1cm (unframed)
- Signed on the front
- Style: Geometric
- Subject: Abstract and non-figurative
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Original artwork description
From the series “Code”, oil and graphite pencil on paper, 30 x 30 cm.
A map is an imprint, a sign of man in the landscape. An alien intelligence, observing our cities from the great distances of the space, could interpret them as the characters of an alphabet, sort of messages, a code of signs, each one different from the other, each with its own meaning and its own syntax. This hypothetical alien presence may not even realize that these cities have a purpose and a function, which are the product of the way we have adapted to live on this planet, but it could engage in an attempt to interpret this unknown language, identifying the alphabet and associating to each character a precise meaning. We will still be able to understand and share this new meanings, or will they have lost any sense for us?
Materials used:
oil and graphite pencil on paper
Tags:
#cypher #urban #city #town #map #geography #mapping #city abstract #code #plan
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Artist Reviews (29)
Federico Cortese
Italy
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like a mouse in its box. A little mouse safe in its shelter, that passes his time gnawing the
food stored for the winter. But my food are the drawings. I... Read more