Dresden, Germany
Thanks to my map obsession and a tip-off from fellow map enthusiast and Arbuturian co-founder Toby White, I have been induced to continue my exploration of such topographical art and artifacts via a special Maps category.
The latest entry in said section is the work of London born, Oregon based artist Matthew Picton (up at Summaria Lunn in Mayfair from March 3rdthrough April 6th). The creator basically makes 3-dimensional cartographic sculptures from cut paper.
Personally I’ve been feeling the tremblings of a sculpture or objets zeitgeist. We’re all online too often, making the three-dimensional world and its manifestations all the more exotic and appealing. Sculpture sometimes makes you want to reach out and touch, grab, and interact with it (at its best). Unfortunately, I’ve seen children do this in places like the depressing Tate Modern—with no guard in sight (or no guard clueful enough) to stop them from tampering with the art.
But I digress. Picton’s very physically present mapwork spans the globe, covering Mexico City, London, Dublin, Lower Manhattan, Tehran, Dresden, Washington, D.C., Florence and Hiroshima.
