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Musa x paradisiaca L.

Robert Schlotter — Mon, 22 Oct 2018 12:29:01 +0000

Musa x Paradisiaca L.* by Martina Pozzan is an ongoing work on biological diversity seen from an institutional perspective. A silent journey between dormant buds, a view of reassembling the natural at the genetic biodiversity limit. The visual journey crosses seamlessly different collections analyzed: seed banks, in-vitro conservation, cryopreservation and living collections.
*Musa x paradisiaca is the accepted name for the hybrid between Musa acuminata and Musa balbisiana. The ‘x’ taxonomic classification indicates a hybrid of a species if placed before the species. Most cultivated bananas and plantains are triploid cultivars either of this hybrid or of M. acuminata alone. ‘L.’ indicates the abbreviation of Linnaeus / Carl von Linné, the Swedish naturalist.

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IRIS Number 3: Very violet

Robert Schlotter — Tue, 24 Nov 2015 22:38:44 +0000

Series of poems created from iris names, one of the most hybrided flower in occidental countries. Each book corresponds to one poem and contains images of the irises used to build the poem.

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IRIS Number 2: Jolly Joey

Robert Schlotter — Mon, 23 Nov 2015 12:49:27 +0000

Series of poems created from iris names, one of the most hybrided flower in occidental countries. Each book corresponds to one poem and contains images of the irises used to build the poem.

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IRIS Number 1: Above the clouds

Robert Schlotter — Sat, 21 Nov 2015 02:40:34 +0000

Series of poems created from iris names, one of the most hybrided flower in occidental countries. Each book corresponds to one poem and contains images of the irises used to build the poem.

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Plants and Soil

Robert Schlotter — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 15:19:44 +0000

The book Plants and Soil – The Visual Development of a Structure contains a photographic sequence comprising forty images. Identified here as the pivotal element of a certain spacial configuration in an urban setting in the city of Hamburg, the photographs portray a topiary-like garden sculpture in the shape of a peacock.

The operation the goddesses Juno and Iris perform is a transformation (an abstraction) – from the globe of the eye (from bulbus oculi) to a pattern of plumage, from the organ of sight to an ornament (to illustration). A symbolic transplantation, taxidermy of a concept. By making the peacock the lasting bearer of the notion of Argos’ multi-ocular gaze, Juno maintains Argos’ legacy. It is without doubt the many-eyed Argos (the Panoptes – the All-Seeing) who, by his surveying gaze, is enabled to gain an exhaustive conception of an image of the world.

With reference to the latest theory of colour introduced by his contemporary Franciscus Aguilonius, Rubens based his allegory of seeing – and notably Iris’ accompanying rainbow – on a blue-red-yellow colour scheme. Aguilonius – otherwise known as Francois d’Aguilon – was a Brussels-born jesuit mathematician, a physicist and architect, the author of a six-volume treatise on optics and active in Antwerp at the same time as Rubens. Rubens contributed the frontispieces and several illustrations to his ‘Six Books of Optics’. In his comprehensive study Aguilonius explicates, inter alia, the principles of stereographic projection. Stereographic projection is a geometric function that projects a sphere onto a plane. It is used to make a coherent two-dimensional illustration from the three-dimensional thing – such as a map from the terrestrial globe. — SH

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