Olivo Barbieri's model world
There is an article on Metropolismag.com about a man who takes aerial photos from real metropolitan areas, and makes them look like models. I thought it was interesting in light of the urban planning we've been talking and reading about: models are not simply 'harmless' creative expressions of a particular discourse - some of them do eventually become the reality that we have to live in. http://www.metropolismag.com/cda/story.php?artid=1760
posted by Sofie Rycken at 12:27 PM
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This is certainly a vivid illustration of the power planning has to shape urban environments. Also notice how his art blurs the boundary that separates the real from the simulacrum, but does so in the opposite direction than we are normally accustomed to in postmodern art. Could we say that here the real is 'more simulated than the simulacrum'?
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