tinplate 6-14, 2020

imaginary islands

TINPLATES 6-14, 2020 *

The shape of the plates comes from nine islands in The Dictionary of Imaginary Places by Alberto Manguel and Gianni Guadalupi.

First the sheet ,metal has been heated in an impactor, after that processed by hand with wooden mauls of different kinds.

Tinplate 6 Ogygia — in the west of the Mediterranean, first mapped by Homeros ca 800 b.c. 120x77x15 cm

Tinplate 7 Anostus—in the mouth of the Mediterranean, mapped by Claudius Aelianus ca 200 a.d. 90x64x15 cm

Tinplate 8 Laputa —near coast of Japan, discovered by Lemuel Gulliver 1711. 90x76x15 cm

Tinplate 9 Lincoln —outside New Zeeland, discovered by Captain Nemo, ca 1860. 115x65x15 cm

Tinplate 10 Luggnagg— outside coast of Japan, discovered 1699 by Captain Lemuel Gulliver. 98x63x15 cm

Tinplate 11 Chana —Indian ocean close to India, discovered by John Mandeville 1357 109x84x15 cm

Tinplate 12 Alcina—Caribbean sea, mapped by Ludovico Ariosto 1516. 128x95x15 cm

Tinplate 13 Her—unknown site, discovered by Alfred Jarry 1911. 107x70x15 cm

Tinplate 14 Aiaia —easter Mediterranean or in the Black sea, first mapped by Homeros ca 800 b.c. 124x94x15 cm

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