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Karin Schäfer
Austria
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Cartographies of memory
22 pieces
Artist highlights
- Experienced Artist
- Featured in gallery curations
- Works on commission
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Artwork details
- Medium : Acrylic, Collage on Paper
- Other details : Artwork on synthetic panel. Ready to hang. Framing on request.
- Dimensions : 39.4x55.1in
About this artwork
The Beauty of Rivers - "For me, land and sea maps are both abstract and yet 'true' representations of the world: although they appear to depict reality, they always also evoke subjective, poetic, and yearning feelings. I translate these sensations into my maps: the SEAmaps."
The SEAmaps combine a love of the sea, a collection of old maps and nautical charts, a fascination for ships, containers, and ports with a passion for travel and the joy of… "getting lost" - in foreign lands, past times, somewhere between cities, countries, islands, and oceans.
At first glance, the SEAmaps appear like maps, with strange, sometimes familiar shapes of cities, countries, and continents, but in impossible combinations. Layer upon layer, these are superimposed; much happens at the edges, along the coasts, but just as much – just as in the sea itself – takes place beneath the surface.
The SEAmaps combine a love of the sea, a collection of old maps and nautical charts, a fascination for ships, containers, and ports with a passion for travel and the joy of… "getting lost" - in foreign lands, past times, somewhere between cities, countries, islands, and oceans.
At first glance, the SEAmaps appear like maps, with strange, sometimes familiar shapes of cities, countries, and continents, but in impossible combinations. Layer upon layer, these are superimposed; much happens at the edges, along the coasts, but just as much – just as in the sea itself – takes place beneath the surface.
Karin Schäfer
Austria
Credentials
- Experienced Artist
- Featured in gallery curations
- Works on commission
« Wanderlust and curiosity drive me on and the only way not to get lost is to survey the imaginary world. I am the cartographer of our longing places. »
In the SEAmaps, Schäfer's love of the sea, her collection of old land and sea maps, her fascination for ships, containers and ports are combined with her love of travel and the joy of "getting lost" - in foreign places, past times, somewhere between cities, countries, islands and oceans.
Her central approach is collage - dismantling, assembling, combining elements from other contexts and integrating them into new perspectives, scenes and actions.
Her central approach is collage - dismantling, assembling, combining elements from other contexts and integrating them into new perspectives, scenes and actions.
Karin Schäfer
The Flows
$5,890
