Human Geography from The city of oslo

Result #1

Human Geography from The city of oslo, 2003–, a survey of the citys architecture. A survey of the citys architecture, a project that is itself a kind of architectural architecture, is a sort of architectural landscape, a collection of buildings and a landscape. The citys architecture is a collection of buildings that are also monuments, as they are part of a human civilization. It is a collection of the citys memory, a recording of the past, a way of documenting the present. The cities and monuments that have been captured and documented in the gallery are part of an ongoing project, which also includes the reconstruction of the city of Oslo, a project that was not realized, as it was planned, due to the terrorist attack on the city in May 2004. The reconstruction of the city of Oslo took place at a time of crisis in the Balkans and also represents a response to the tragic events of September 11.The exhibition also included photographs of the citys architecture and monuments. These images represent the citys fragment, a space that is both visible and invisible. The photographs depict the ruins of buildings that were destroyed during the war in Kosovo and of monuments that have been moved to the background of the city. The photograph Somoza, 2003, shows a building that is both visible and invisible. It is a crumbling building, a relic of a past that cannot be completely remembered.The exhibition also presented a series of photographs that document the reconstruction of the city of Oslo. These photographs show the citys modern, urban infrastructure, its streets, its bridges and electric poles, and the urban landscape as a whole. The reconstruction of Oslo is also a reconstruction of the citys past, as it was originally conceived. The citys urban landscape has been radically altered, and the reconstructed city of Oslo is no longer the same as the city of the 1960s and 70s, when the project was conceived.

Result #2

Human Geography from The city of oslo to the country of Santiago, Argentina (The City of the Future, The City of the Past), 2017–18, mixed media. Installation view, Berlin, 2018. Photo: Stefan Altenburger. In the spirit of a postmodernist-geographic-ideological-anthropological-research-and-art-making-curatorial-project-for-art-world-attention-span-today, curator André Biro recently curated a major project in the small, modern gallery of the Hamburger Kunstverein, where it premiered as a work in progress. On view were installations by twenty-two artists, ranging from the most obvious, such as Philippe Parrenos and Fariba Hajamadis field-work-inspired drawings of solitary migrant women, to the less obvious, such as Ana Maria Maiolinos wall-mounted, wax-and-oil-stick-like metal structures, and Hausmanns multileveled architectural sculpture The Heart, 2013–16. Each of the artists offered a new take on the architecture of the city, and on the world. For example, Hajamadis sculpture, In the Presence of Others, 2013, features a life-size, white, black, and red death mask made of foam, a sculptural version of a ritual mask, and a wall-mounted replica of a building that once stood in the city of Oslo. The piece is a veritable re-creation of an old-world urban center, recalling the built environment of the city of Oslo. Parrenos work, On the Road to Re-Cubicle, 2012–17, was a series of three-dimensional cube-shaped sculptures that reconfigured the city of Oslo into a kind of imagined apartment. The works were installed in the gallery space and were decorated with a colorfully painted, brightly patterned carpet. The show was also packed with video and film.

Result #3

Human Geography from The city of oslo to the world at large, 2012, was installed in the center of the gallery. A small wooden structure was made of wood, and a pair of black-tiled feet rested on the floor. The work consists of two large-format images—one a portrait of a woman, the other a still life of a man—each painted a single color and hung on the wall with a small metal stand. The photographs depict a man and a woman in casual conversation, and the stand, which faces the viewer, is covered with a white cloth. The image of the stand is itself covered with cloth, and the image of the woman is repeated in the lower part of the image. The images are hung on the wall in such a way that they are visible only when one stands under them. The viewer is thus invited to explore the two images and their relationship to one another, and to connect the two parts of the portrait.The show was interrupted by the series of black-tiled prints that constituted a part of the exhibition. Each picture consisted of a photograph of a hand, in the form of a brush, that was drawn from a different image, cropped in such a way that it became impossible to recognize the subject. The series, which was installed in the second room of the gallery, consists of a series of four drawings. Each drawing is made up of four separate images, and the four images are assembled in such a way that it is impossible to identify the subject of the drawing at the same time. The drawings are also installed in such a way that they are visible only when one stands under them. The viewer is thus invited to explore the four images and their relationship to one another, and to connect the two parts of the portrait.The exhibition concluded with a video installation that was a kind of project for the exhibition.

Result #4

Human Geography from The city of oslo, 1982, to The city of the stars, 1981, the second of three installations in which the artist was presented with a different set of materials in the form of objects from different cultures and times, and which made the whole installation a kind of cultural diary of the collective unconscious. This is not an exhibition of cultural artifacts; rather, it was a record of a world that has lost its identity, one in which history has become a parceled by signs. The artist, as she writes in her text, made a world that is as yet not there. There are still things in it that we can see, but they are no longer signs. The city of oslo is a place where signs are also signs. The city of the stars, on the other hand, is a place where signs are no longer signs. The stars are no longer visible, but only through the invisible, and are only a reflection of the city itself. The city, in turn, is nothing more than a reflection of itself. It is nothing more than a sign that is no longer a sign.The other piece, the painting of a red river, The red river, 1982, is a work that is also a drawing, a line drawing that takes place in the space of the canvas. It is a very precise drawing, in fact, a drawing that is very precise. The red river is an image that is so exact that it seems almost like a map of the world. The river is the place where the world is located; it is the place where the visible is located. The drawing is a reflection of the place where the drawing is situated. The red river, then, is a place of sight. The drawing is also a reflection of the place where the reflection of the drawing is located. The river is a place that is not visible, and one that is neither visible nor a reflection of the visible.

Result #5

(all works 2008), a series of thirty-five photographs taken from a book of maps of the world, shows the cities in various stages of construction. The city of oslo is shown as a series of slender, wide, winding lines, and its scale is measured by the number of streets, and the series title, The city of oslo, is a pun on the term street. But the line is also a metaphor for the shape of the city, which is also a metaphor for the human body. The buildings are not meant to be walked through but rather to be walked through. The bodies that emerge are images of the city, which is the city of the body. The works are a testament to the people who live there, and to the citys physical presence in a human body. In these works, the city appears as a place where people are active, and are no longer themselves. The city is not only a place of activity but also a body that is not only self-contained but is also a living organism. It is a place where we can be, and where we are. The city is a place of wonder, and it is a place where human beings can find themselves.