Tag Archives: Miniatures

1991: Three Doors

Posted on August 24, 2017 by corvusfugit

Charles Matton: Boulevard Saint Germain (3 doors) (1991)

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1686: Dollhouse

Posted on August 20, 2017 by corvusfugit

Dollhouse of Petronella Oortman (c. 1686 – c. 1710) (source) Click for detail.

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1789: The Bastilles Made from the Bastille

Posted on August 13, 2017 by corvusfugit

Pierre-François Palloy owned one of the largest building firms in Paris when the Bastille fell on July 14, 1789, and, after some debate over the fate of the prison that had come to symbolize tyranny in the city, he acquired … Continue reading →

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2007: The Doll House

Posted on August 8, 2017 by corvusfugit

In 2005 I acquired the use of a farmhouse, abandoned in the late 60’s. The house was located near Sinclair Manitoba on highway #2. For over 18 months ( – winter) I re-shingled the roof with recycled shingles and restored … Continue reading →

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2014: Homesick

Posted on August 6, 2017 by corvusfugit

A still from Hrair Sarkissian’s video Homesick (2014), in which he destroys a scale model of the apartment building in Damascus in which he grew up and where his parents still live.

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2013: The 387 Houses of Peter Fritz

Posted on August 5, 2017 by corvusfugit

Austrian insurance clerk Peter Fritz constructed these model buildings in the 1950’s and 1960’s, working with cardboard, matchboxes, wallpaper scraps, and magazine pages. They were discovered by artist Oliver Croy in 1993 in a Berlin junk shop, each in a … Continue reading →

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2014: Dumpster

Posted on July 28, 2017 by corvusfugit

Drew Leshko: Pop’s Not Dead (2014, I think)—from his series of miniature dumpsters, here.

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2013: 1989

Posted on July 24, 2017 by corvusfugit

Jojakim Cortis and Adrian Sonderegger create minuature versions of scenes from iconic photographs using scale models and other materials. The image above, for example—which might at first seem to be Charlie Cole’s famous picture of the “tank man” from the … Continue reading →

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2016: Restoration

Posted on July 23, 2017 by corvusfugit

Conservation work begins on the model Enterprise from the original Star Trek series at the Smithsonian, 2016. “Our goal is to stabilize the model and return it to its appearance from August of 1967, during the filming of the episode … Continue reading →

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1944: Model City

Posted on July 22, 2017 by corvusfugit

The decorative industrial management buildings and exhibition centers in authoritarian countries are much the same as anywhere else. The huge gleaming towers that shoot up everywhere are outward signs of the ingenious planning of international concerns, toward which the unleashed … Continue reading →

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