GUSTAV DEUTSCH

ARTISTIC RESEARCH PROJECTS

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GUSTAV DEUTSCH

ARTISTIC RESEARCH PROJECTS

Plants of the desert

20m² - Figuig / Morocco

1m² desert chosen from 9 million km² - The Sahara in a sandpit. Confronting forces of nature with forceps. Labeling and numbering tiny life forms. Methodical approach to a primeval landscape with the means of scientific drawers and criminalists. Crime Scene Botany.

Study of the vegetation in the stone desert near the Figuig oasis. Categorization according to type, frequency and location with help of a square frame, signs, photographs, specimen and aquarelle sample cards.

Cassette with 30 signs, sheet steel, welded
30 specimen
30 aquarelle sample cards
40 photographs
Sketches

Presentation:
TRAVEL ART - The Athens Conference, Palamas Building, Athens, 15.2. - 26.2.1995