L’Atlas Farnèse est une sculpture romaine qui représente le Titan Atlas portant une sphère céleste. Elle mérite un examen un peu détaillé. /\ The Farnese Atlas is a Roman sculpture depicting the Titan Atlas carrying a celestial sphere. It deserves a closer look.
Un appel à communications pour un colloque sur « Le film dans la pratique de la géographie » vient de paraître. L’objet est de réunir les géographes qui utilisent le film dans la pratique de leur discipline. / A call for papers for a conference on « The film in the practice of geography » has just been published. The aim is to bring together geographers who use the film in the practice of their discipline
L’exposition Eldorama au Tripostal de Lille propose encore pour quelques jours de découvrir l’une des cartes monumentales peintes par l’artiste chinois Qiu Zhijie, qu’il consacre pour l’occasion à l’Histoire et à l’actualité de la Cartographie.
Merci au Cartographe (voir aussi ici ) pour ce superbe et sophistiqué spécimen collecté sur Twitter et que nous épinglons à notre tour sur (e)space&fiction. Il s’agit de l’affiche japonaise originale du film de Melville L’Armée des ombres (1970) qui dispose les visages des acteurs autour d’un prisonnier dont la chemise prend la forme d’une…
Annual Rings (1968), œuvre de Dennis Oppeheim exposée au musée d’art moderne et contemporain de Saint-Étienne Métropole (MAMC+) jusqu’au 8 avril a toute sa place dans la collection de (e)space & fiction. /\ Annual Rings (1968), a work of Dennis Oppeheim exhibited until April 8th at the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art of Saint-Étienne Métropole (MAMC +) has to be in (e)space & fiction.
Le troisième type que nous proposons regroupe des films où l’espace de la prise de vue s’appuie sur les espaces matériels sur lesquels interviennent les peintres. Ces films utilisent le cadre du tableau ou des dispositifs matériels utilisés par les peintres pour réaliser leur œuvre picturale. Tout comme pour les deux premières catégories de notre…
Le deuxième grand type proposé regroupe des films où sont mis en scène un lieu, une ville, une région, un pays où des peintres ont réellement vécu ou se sont rendus. /\ The second major type includes films in which depicting a place, a city, a region or a country where painters have actually lived or that they have visited.
Le premier d’une série de trois articles d’analyse géographique de l’espace pictural au cinéma consacré à des films où l’espace mis en scène fait référence à des œuvres picturales réelles /\ The first in a series of three post dedicated to a geographical analysis of pictorial space in films with a first kind where the space staged refers to real pictorial works.
Dans la série des billets de Noël d'(e)space&fiction, une série de cartes (géographiques) de vœux sélectionnée par Atlas Obscura dans la collection de la New-York Public Library./\ In the series of (e)space&fiction Christmas posts, here is a series of (geo)greeting cards selected by Atlas Obscura from the New York Public Library collection.
Le Musée de Montmartre à Paris accueille du 12 avril 2017 au 14 janvier 2018 l’exposition « Montmartre décor de cinéma » /\ The exhibition « Montmartre décor de cinéma » (Montmartre as a film shooting location) takes place at the Museum of Montmartre between 12 April 2017 and 14 January 2018.
Sur les 37 œuvres connues de Vermeer, plusieurs comportent des cartes accrochées au mur des intérieurs représentés. S’agit-il de simples objets de décor ou de symboles à la signification plus ou moins évidente ? /\ Of the 37 works known to Vermeer, several are containing maps, hanging on the wall of the interiors depicted. Are they simple elements of decoration or symbols with a more or less obvious meaning ?
Le Parrain: 3e partie est un film réalisé par Francis Ford Coppola. Michael Corleone, parrain du Clan Corleone, souhaite prendre ses distances avec la Mafia et se concentrer sur des affaires légales. Pour se faire, il se rapproche de l’Église. /\ The Godfather: Part III is a 1990 film directed by Francis Ford Coppola. Michael Corleone, a Mafia kingpin, aims to distance himself from the Mafia and to concentrate on legal businesses. In order to do so, he approaches the Roman Catholic Church.
Specimen : Louise Bourgeois, “Paris Toujours Paris” (Set No. 7, detail), 2006
Dans le film Diamants sur canapé Holly tricote un objet aux formes curieuses. Serait-ce le plan d’un ranch » ? Et si un fil invisible reliait carte et tricot ? /\ In the movie Breafkfast at Tiffany’s Holly is knitting an indistinct object, a ranch perhaps ? And if an invisible thread were connecting maps and knitting?
Specimen : au hasard des rues de Bologne, près de la cinémathèque, cette superbe affiche dessinée pour la version restaurée de Rome, Ville ouverte …
Mona Hatoum’s exhibition, held at the Centre Pompidou until the 28th of September, gathers over 100 works of this internationally renowned artist, in media as varied as performance, video, installation and sculpture. A dozen of these works give a particular overview of Mona Hatoum’s fascination for maps, which she represents as figurative images of real…
Here are a game and a smartphone application proposed by the CAUE of Isère. The goal is to find the exact location where the artist was standing when he painted or photographed a scenery shown in the works of several museums of Dauphiné. Then people are invited to produce replicas of the work from this…
The city of Le Havre (France) has now its literary tour map. Drawing on the work of Bertrand Westphal on Geocriticism, Sonia Anton, professor of literature at the University of Le Havre, has developed a literary tour of the city through 20 places evoked by famous writers like Jean-Paul Sartre and Honoré de Balzac. This…
From October 1, 2014 to January 18 2015, the exhibition « Hokusai » is held at the Grand Palais in Paris. This exhibition presents nearly 500 works by the Japanese artist Katsushika Hokusai (1760-1849), one of the most famous Japanese artists in the world today. Much of the works presented will never leave Japan after the opening…
The French artist Séverine Hubard (born in 1977) present at the Musée d’Art Moderne et Contemporain de Strasbourg (MAMCS) a temporary exhibition called Village. Work specially made for MAMCS, Village consists of an assembly of 18 « huts », mainly in wood and metal, hung together. This monumental work is eleven meters high. Installed in the external…
Rocky, Yoda or The Little Prince are not the only fictional characters who have been materialized. Superman and Lois Lane have also their own materialization. Even if Metropolis, the city where Superman lives is fictional, a city in Illinois has the same name and beyond this resemblance, the city host… Superman and Lois Lane! Rocky, Yoda…
Land art emerged in the late 60’s. This contemporary art movement uses real spaces, with their various natural or human components, to support sustainable or ephemeral artistic creation, where real space pertains to the work itself. Early forms of land art emerged in the West of the USA. Some works of Land Art are huge…
Carte de Tendre de François Chauveau dans Clélie, Histoire romaine, première partie de Madeleine de Scudéry, Paris, Augustin Courbé, 1654, © BnF La Carte de Tendre is a map of an imaginary country called Tendre, imagined by Madeleine de Scudéry in her novel Clélie, histoire romaine, published in 10 volumes from 1654 to 1660. This…
The exhibition « Le Surréalisme et l’objet« , which takes place at the Centre Pompidou in Paris from 30 October 2013 to 3 March 2014, reveals, among others, a work by Marcel Jean entitled « La fille de l’horoscope« from 1970. This is a small model (38.5 x 22 x 15.5 cm), such as larger used in sewing,…
All works of the artist Till Roeskens proceed at the beginning from geography. When he chooses to use maps or landscape views, this is less for their aesthetic quality as for their primary function: restoring the form and the arrangement of space. But Till Roeskens always place « at man’s reach », i.e. at the level of…
« Immortel (Ad Vitam) » is a French sci-fi movie directed in 2004 by Enki Bilal, designer of world famous comics. It is one of three films directed by Enki Bilal, all directly inspired by his works, the atmosphere that emerges and their imaginary geographies. The stories all take place in a more or less distant future,…
From 16 October 2013 to 26 January 2014, the exhibition « Pasolini Roma » holds at the Cinémathèque française in Paris. This exhibition proposes six sections corresponding to different periods of Pasolini’s life, especially in Roma, which was both the place where he lived from 1950 to his death in 1975, and the place where he made…
From 16 October 2013 to 19 January 2014, the exhibition « Astérix at the BnF » holds at the Bibliothèque nationale de France (BnF) in Paris,. This exhibition proposes a wide number of original sketches, videos and many by-products of Asterix’s world. It gives an occasion to pinpoint the use of maps and spatial means in one…
A novelty in (e)space & fiction, the reference to a map in a film not yet released and not even shot! If you were in August nearby the campus of the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, you could attend the first rehearsal of the shooting of the film Tomorrowland, whose release is scheduled for…
From 16 March to 12 May 2013, hold at the Hotel des Arts in Toulon, the exhibition « Mappamundi. Art & Cartography ». This exhibition proposed to address the many and multiple links between arts and mapping through twenty six major artists who have « worked the map and questioned mapping » for forty years. Du 16 mars au…
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