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View on the World Map

Item date(s): 2013

Annesas Appel  - (book artist)


Pages: see details
Size: 383mm
Inscription: Signed by the artist
Edition: 4/25 and 1/25


Place publication: Haarlem, The Netherlands
Publisher: The artist
Cat. 125-C5-2/3
Exhibition 2017

Additional notes:
01 , 02 and 03. Centre

Digital works on paper, handmade books in accordion form, composed of central pint-co-ordinates of all countries of the world (scale 1:6,550,000), each represented by green lines on paper. There is an index of all countries and their individual green colour. Each book is related to one third of the original world map. The addition of green co-ordinates has been executed in reversed alphabetical order.

3 Leparello's (sic) digitally printed on Innova Photo Smooth Cotton high white 225 grams. Each book has 10 pages + a overview of the world map.

The numbers are indicated by pinpricks on the covers. Housed together in a light green card slipcase.

04. Entities.

A handmade bound book (scale 1:6,550,000) consisting of all entities of the countries of the world, digitally printed as flat green surfaces on paper. The entities are organized in alphabetical order - all entities of each country represented by a unique color green.

Book, digitally printed on Innova Photo Smooth Cotton high white 225 grams. 21 pages + a summary of the entities of all countries of the world map.

Housed in a dark green card slipcase.

Both slipcases are held within a wrap-around folder with the title on the spine.

For information only:

No 05 is an assemble of felt models, which is unique and an installation, not a book.

760pp. 28.5 x 19.25cm

An assembling of 223 (all countries) rolled tapes (white paper, approx 2 cm high), each tape representing the length (Scale 1000 km = 10 m) of the border of a country. It’s an installation and unique.

No 06 Realignment

In green card slipcase matching the covers of the book.

28.5 cm, Approx 200 pages.

07. 08. 09. 10. 11. Remains

Handmade bound books, digitally printed on Innova Photo Smooth Cotton high white 225 grams. 14.25 x 19.25 cm.

All five volumes contained in a green card slipcase matching the covers of the books. 16pp, 32pp, 12pp, 16pp, 12pp.



Reference note:
See: Additional Material

Exhibition notes:
Item 0125 - C5-2/3 on Booknesses: Artists' books from the Jack Ginsberg Collection.

UJ Art Gallery, University of Johannesburg

25 March to 5 May 2017

Ref: GB/14182













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