landmarks like castles, towers, windmills,
industrial plants or public buildings as
well as landscape formations like cliffs,
rocks, sand or rubble depending on
cartographic style of the symbols for these
they communicate higher plasticity by
hatchings.
4. Eventually captions inform about names of places, countries, landscapes, mountains and rivers as well as emphasized details. IV maps as networks / transport networks The possibilty of the spacial shifting of modules which we call collage, is adopted by Moldenhauer by means of cartographic representation of cities that are linked with each other in a wall work in the exhibition space in the basement where the sections are put together that indeed a physical net is formed. To produce this situation Moldenhauer used street maps from which she removed all fields with buildings, parks or smaller streets so that only high ways and arterial roads remained. In so doing she assembled a round dance of about 12 cities by creating 'short circuits' between the arterial roads respectively. This fragmentation of city maps and the method of combining deepen what was said above (comp. chapter III) about the |
gaps
because analog
principles take effect in each case even
though - in this case - the 'canals' between
various 'islands' are bridged by street
connections. Notable was that for some
exhibition visitors the cartographic view of
cities were memorized by experience with
street maps to an extent that they were
recognized alone by the pattern of traffic
routes, without residential areas and
waterways. But the sole attention to the
organization of the streets suggests also a
distorted image of the use of area by streets
which simply doesn't conform with the true use
of landscape by accen- tuation on street maps.
The exaggerated width of the streets is able
to display for example the noise that
influences within a much wider corridor the
people who live in the traffic's zone of
influence. It is to be accentuated with this kind of painting and room installation by Moldenhauer is the term 'hybrid' which - being in focus within the year's subject - has become virulent by the interrelation between interior design and painting. With this the meshing of interior design, trade and geological history as well as painting as projection and cartography as symbolization and imagery could become visible. |
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