Mental Maps - Franz Ackermann

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My Notes
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September 26, 2017
In Munich, Germany, we went to the Lenbachhaus gallery, and saw some works by Franz Ackermann.
I've looked him up online, and will record the basics of what I learn in this workbook.
I'm especially interested in: how multiple graphs can link up
- Ackermann combines his own travel and emotional mental maps with the actual geography of a place
- he also combines his experiences with the official tourist/hotel maps
- he uses graphs - places and connections
There are an infinite number of possible interconnecting (or not so obviously interconnecting) spaces.
Travel brings out lots of uncertainty in space and time.
- I might remember doing something on a trip, but not be sure exactly where or when it was.
- I might know it was in a specific country, but not know which town or city.
See Sept 26 notes in my notebook.

References
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(1) http://db-artmag.de/archiv/2004/e/1/1/172.html
    "'Mental Maps' are what Franz Ackermann calls his drawings, psychocartographies he made of his travels around the world. Ackermann's cities are images of a globalized landscape"
    "his concept of Mental Maps, journal-like drawings that document his dealings with local life as opposed to actual cities."
    "His approach always remains firmly grounded in the tourist's strategy: beginning at the city center, his expeditions progress concentrically outwards until he eventually reaches the periphery."

(2) http://www.saatchigallery.com/artists/franz_ackermann.htm
    descriptions of various works
    "concentric patterns of colour expose hints of identifiable place (a street map, a building interior, a snippet of landscape) only to dislocate them in a maze of organic generalisations."
    "Through his unbridled abstraction, Ackermann strives to chart out the physical impossibility of conceptual space."

(3) http://www.kunsthalle-karlsruhe.de/en/exhibitions/review/review-2014/franz-ackermannmental-maps-eikones.html
    "Key to his multifaceted work are his Mental Maps, small watercolours and gouaches that he started producing in 1991 during his numerous journeys and residencies around the world and which often serve as inspirations for larger works.
    In a fusion of cartographic structures, architectural views, and flourishing ornamentation, he captures his subjective impressions of a particular locale, encapsulating in them the themes of globalization, mobility, and tourism."

(4) search engine: Mental Maps - Franz Ackermann

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