Encyclopaedia of Tlön

“If our foresight is not mistaken, a hundred years from now someone will discover the hundred volumes of the ‘Second Encyclopaedia of Tlön’”, Jorge Luis Borges wrote 1941 in the epilogue to his tale “Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius”. More than 50 years later his text was a source of inspiration for a project that Peter Malutzki and Ines von Ketelhodt undertook as the attempt to reconstruct the “Second Encyclopaedia of Tlön”. Within ten years (1997– 2006) they have published fifty volumes.

Detanico e Lain

(O mundo) justificado, alinhado à esquerda, centralizado, alinhado à direita, 2004
4 caixas de luz
120 x 250 x 12 cm cada

O mapa do mundo representado em linhas gráficas e organizado como um texto, seguindo os padrões tipográficos de alinhamento.

(galeria Vermelho)

Felipe Andres Cura Mendez

Nueva Cartografia Mundial, 2002

colagem, 66 x 86 cm

Lewis Carroll

The Hunting of the Snark, 1876.
[From: Fit the Second. The Bellman's Speech.]

He had bought a large map representing the sea,
without the least vestige of land.
And the crew were much pleased when they found it to be
a map they could all understand.

"What's the good of Mercator's
North Poles and Equators,
Tropics, Zones, and Meridian Lines?"
so the Bellman would cry,
and the crew would reply:
"They are merely conventional signs!"

"Other maps are such shapes,
with their islands and capes!
But we've got our brave Captain to thank,"
(so the crew would protest)
"that he's bought us the best
–a perfect and absolute blank!"

[via Radical Art]

Mapa Inuit de madeira

Mapa tridimensional de madeira

The Greenland National Museum and Archives

Mapa do litoral

Europa Regina

A Europa vista como rainha do mundo, segundo a concepção eurocêntrica que vigorou no Ocidente até finais da Primeira Guerra Mundial. Ilustração impressa na "Cosmographia Universalis" de Sebastiano Munster, 1588 (via virtual memories)

Simon Patterson

The Great Bear, 1985

Adam Dant

"Art Atlas", 2007

Ink, watercolor on paper 22" x 30"

San Serriffe

Um mapa imaginário, publicado no ótimo Strange Maps

Alighiero Boetti

Aqui tem outros mapas deste italiano.

Saul Steinberg

Capa da revista The New Yorker, mapa-mundi tendo Mahattan como centro.

Simon Evans

Este trabalho esteve exposto na Bienal de São Paulo. É um mapa mental, desenhado por este que se considera um cartógrafo amador.