Theatrum orbis terrarum 157012/24/2023 She graduated from the Jan van Eyck Academie. In 2005, with her partner Maarten Vanden Eynde, she founded the artist-run initiative, Enough Room for Space, which partners with sites and institutions around the world to initiate temporary projects that explore critical positions of art in society and create platforms for collaboration. Marjolijn Dijkman has exhibited her work at Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, Rotterdam Mercosur Biennial, Porto Alegre, Brazil Arnolfini, Bristol MACBA, Barcelona MuHKA, Antwerp Bloomberg SPACE, London Bonner Kunstverein, Bonn De Appel, Amsterdam Sharjah Biennial and Van Abbemuseum, Eindoven. As a means to engage publicly, the project presents itself in many iterations-through the physical exhibition, accompanying website, and a freely distributed newspaper. Speculations constructs an alternate timeline, organizing itself not through chronology, but by the eras and time periods speculated upon in the images themselves. References engages notions of geographic and cultural displacement, depicting the ways in which architecture and urban planning often copy or co-opt foreign tropes. Gestures shows the traces and effects of human intervention into the built and natural environments, relating verbs of action (Abandon, Botch, Camouflage, Declare, Embrace, for example) to images of public space. Dijkman's archive of images is organized along three axes: Gestures, References, and Speculations in aggregate it attempts to rethink existing representations of the world. Marjolijn Dijkman's Theatrum Orbis Terrarum began similarly as an attempt to collect photographic evidence of the places she had traveled, to collect the world as she had seen it-evolving over time within an overarching framework of relationships between herself and the images spaces and gestures localities and displacements and among past, present, and future. Of course, now websites like Google Earth and Flickr are made up of millions of such images, be they official or user-generated. Since the early twentieth century, as photography developed and cameras became increasingly portable, images have, in some ways, supplanted maps as a means of transmitting visual information about place, for understanding the terrain of foreign lands and the layout of distant cities. Theatrum Orbis Terrarum is considered to be the first true modern atlas. With limited tools of travel and measurement available, these early maps relied on equal parts fact and imagination of course maps remain subjective, with the subtleties of inclusion and exclusion, and the choices of center and margin being not only practical, but also political and social. At the time, it delimited an understanding of the known world (albeit framed by European imperialism and colonialism), giving form and shape to distant countries, illustrating similarities in urban planning, and visualizing connections between places across land and water. Ortelius's atlas, an early attempt at collecting the world in one volume of standardized maps, formed a summary of sixteenth-century cartography. Its title refers to the first true modern atlas, the “Theater of the World,” published by Abraham Ortelius in 1570. There is also a prudent comment adjacent to New Guinea querying whether this large island is part of the southern continent or not" (Shirley 122).Theatrum Orbis Terrarum is an ongoing photographic project initiated by Marjolijn Dijkman in 2005 and comprising more than 9,000 images. South America retains the unusual bulged south-west coast drawn by Mercator. For surviving correspondence it is known that Mercator generously encouraged Ortelius to make use of his published corpus of research he also provided him with co-ordinates of places in America and perhaps elsewhere. Nearly all the legends, textual panels and decorative features have been omitted between the oval circumference of the map and the outer frame are now clouds, and, below, a quotation from Cicero. Ortelius' world map is a simplified one-sheet reduction of Mercator's large world map which had appeared the year before. Imago Mundi 60:2 2008 Language in Orteliuss Theatrum orbis terrarum 203 Fig. "For the first time, in 1570, all elements of the modern atlas were brought to publication in Abraham Ortelius Theatrum Orbis Terrarum. This is the World Map from the Theatrum Orbis Terrarum (Theatre of the World) which is regarded as the first true modern. Like Abraham Orteliuss Theatrum Orbis Terrarum (1570), the Atlas Maior is widely considered a masterpiece of the Golden Age of Dutch/Netherlandish cartography (approximately 1570s1670s). Galleon and sea monsters, German text on verso (repaired along central fold, minor marginal staining, a few short tears repaired on verso, a few tiny chips).įIRST STATE. Earlier, much smaller versions, titled Theatrum Orbis Terrarum, sive, Atlas Novus, were published from 1634 onwards. Įngraved hand-colored world map, image 338 x 495 mm (404 x 534 mm sheet).
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