Exact Copy June 2024

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W 510 x H 355mm watercolour on 300gsm Fabriano Artistico paper, unframed. An abstract landscape that imagines how a small watercolour might serve as an exact copy of a vastly large r space - an idea drawn from Borges’s “Inexactitude in Science.” In Borges’s tale, the map becomes as large as the empire it represents, a perfect replica whose precision renders it useless. This painting plays with that paradox, the notion that a modest sheet of paper could somehow contain, through abstraction, the entirety of a landscape, a world, or even the logic of mapping itself.The work treats the watercolour not as a sketch or fragment, but as a complete stand-in for a much greater expanse. FREE DELIVERY! Show more