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La Petite Mort gallery presents

NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC goes GHETTO

December 7 – 30, 2012 / Group Exhibit
Vernissage December 7 / 7 – 10pm
Tunes by Bic Mac Daddy
Proudly Sponsored by CKCU 93.1 FM

Facebook Invite:
https://www.facebook.com/events/288661501253811/?ref=ts&fref=ts

Statement:
National Geographic has helped to shape many of our personal  
perceptions of global identities throughout our youth, as well as  
into our adult lives. This connection is complex and evolving, and in  
time for the holiday season one cannot help but feel certain  
closeness to the global community at large. La Petite Mort has  
acquired several rare National Geographic maps, and these  
collectors’ items have been selected for an interactive artistic  
project. We’ve invited 25 artists to participate by making a  
selection – each artist will be given the opportunity to choose from  
an array of authentic vintage National Geographic maps, which range  
in years from the 1930s, 40s, and 50s. These maps vary in size,  
colorization, detail, and even smell. They depict such exotic and  
historical places as the following: Historic and Scenic Reaches of  
the Nation’s Capital (Washington), India and Burma, Lands of the  
Bible Today, Europe and the Near East, New Zealand, Historical Map of  
the United States, Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, Germany and  
its Approaches, Countries of the Caribbean, Southwest Asia, the  
Pacific Ocean, California & more!

We ask you to imagine how you saw the world in your youth, what  
images or feelings were inspired by your interactions with National  
Geographic in the past? You are called to express a way of perceiving  
based on memory and recollection – how did we envision the world as  
children? How has this changed? The sentimentality one may feel  
towards National Geographic has formed how we interpret the world. We  
ask that you then put these recollections back onto the maps that  
inspired them in the form of an artistic piece. Once all the maps  
have been transformed, they will be hung in La Petite Mort. The end  
result will be a unification of the world, as the maps will be used  
to cover an entire wall. Our goal is to pull the world together using  
the medium of art.
– Text by Laura Carusi, 2012


ARTIST INSTRUCTIONS: there are some maps left, if interested.

- pick up ONE map asap at gallery / first come, first serve.
- do art on map based on theme, or not. You decide.
- use medium of your choice / be clever
- do not frame / all maps will be pinned to the walls
- drop off finished art/map at gallery
- deadline BEFORE December 2, 2012
- come to the opening on December 7, 2012 / 7 - 10pm
- ALL MAPS will be sold for $300 / 50% to artist
- all UNSOLD MAPS WILL BE KEPT FOR A MINIMUM of 6 months for  
potential sales.

Merci,


Guy Berube
Gallery Director

La Petite Mort Gallery
306 Cumberland Street
Ottawa, ON Canada K1N 7H9
T (613) 860.1555
E guy@lapetitemortgallery.com
W lapetitemortgallery.com

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