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In Eco's ‘In the Name of the Rose’, the abbey of the monastery is a microcosm of the world, based on 14th century medieval maps of the three known continents: Europe, Asia, and Africa. How does Eco’s questioning of a single point of view that “represents the library as labyrinth and world map” inform Los Angeles’ multiple points of reference? What results from the friction between allegory and reality? And what of contemporary models of the universe and current understandings of chaos theory? The installation tries to explore these various models, to integrate them with the reality of Los Angeles, and to elucidate new possibilities in the process.
This investigation will be documented in an installation that will consist of 1) a series of drawings made on free-standing supports of wood, metal, and glass, which act as both drawings and sculpture, 2) works on paper, 3) scrolls from the Medieval Library of Ulm, and 4) models of lost and mythologized libraries.
An artist’s book for this project will be published in June.
The show and book are produced with support from the American Center Foundation.
