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Exhibition : TERRA INCOGNITA
Nature is the origin of all life and its presentation appears to be one of the most traditional pictorial genres throughout history: landscape paintings. This exhibition focuses on the current trend among young artists to address the subject of landscape as precise as possible, yet still subjectively. In terms of historic cartography, Terra Incognita means places that - according to the mapmaker - had not been discovered at that time but were expected to exist. Ever since photography got invented, the 19th century’s explorers and pioneers used this new and convenient medium to "document" formerly undiscovered and exotic areas in realistic form. However, in the first place, the easily reproduced photos served as powerful multiplier of knowledge. It took only seconds to look at them and impart impression...
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Nature is the origin of all life and its presentation appears to be one of the most traditional pictorial genres throughout history: landscape paintings. This exhibition focuses on the current trend among young artists to address the subject of landscape as precise as possible, yet still subjectively.
In terms of historic cartography, Terra Incognita means places that - according to the mapmaker - had not been discovered at that time but were expected to exist. Ever since photography got invented, the 19th century’s explorers and pioneers used this new and convenient medium to "document" formerly undiscovered and exotic areas in realistic form. However, in the first place, the easily reproduced photos served as powerful multiplier of knowledge. It took only seconds to look at them and impart impression...