53°20’ – 53°40’N, 2017
Five topographic models of mountain-landscapes by Thorsten Goldberg for the North East Transit Garage in Edmonton, Canada
Six finalists for the North East Transit Garage (NETG) public art call have been selected from amongst more than 140 applications to propose a signature artwork for the NETG.
Thorsten Goldberg´s proposes 53°20’ – 53°40’N, a collection of five topographic models of mountain-landscapes from different parts of the world, which are on the same latitude as the city of Edmonton: Mount Chown in Alberta, the crater with Mount Okmok, a Volcano on Umnak Island, the Aleutian Islands in Alaska, the Zhupanovsky Crater on the Kamchatka Peninsula, an unnamed landscape in Heilongjiang Sheng in China and Mweelrea, the highest point in the province of Connacht in County Mayo on the west coast of Ireland.
They will be cast in aluminum in the scale of 1:1.000 and mounted upright on the facing sides of the lanterns on the roof of the NETG building.
They appear as gigantic core samples, which are stored on top of the building, emphasizing the functional character of the magazine building. At the same time the collection of landscapes tells of a journey along the 53th parallel around the world, creating a fictitious line to the largely unknown places whose longitudinal coordinates are written on the sides of the lanterns.
The clients are the City of Edmonton and the Arts Council Edmonton. The topographic models, each 610 x 570cm were conceived in 2015 and will be realize in 2017.
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