Alinka Echeverría, David Liittschwager

How many pilgrims gather in La Villa every 12th of December? In 2008, there were 6 million, two months ago, 6.1 millions. Alinka Echeverría presented in Milano a typography of the pilgrims.

And how many living beings can gather in a cubic foot? David Liittschwager visited different environments, and took thousands of pictures in order to present a typography in National Geographic.

Alinka Echeverría, Six Million Pilgrims

David Liittschwager, One Cubic Foot

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LAS AMÉRICAS LATINAS. Las fatigas del querer mostra promossa e organizzata dalla Provincia di Milano in collaborazione con ADAC/Associazione Diffusione Arte Cultura di Modena curata da Philippe Daverio con Elena Agudio e Jean Blanchaert Spazio Oberdan, Viale Vittorio Veneto 2, Milano dal 21 maggio al 4 ottobre 2009.

La mostra LAS AMERICAS LATINAS. Las fatigas del querer infatti, come recita il titolo stesso (“Americhe Latine”), offre un panorama multiplo, diversificato e complesso, come è quello della realtà politica economica sociale e creativa del continente sudamericano. Non un’interpretazione univoca e definitiva, bensì spunti poetici per avvicinarsi alla comprensione di un paese così lontano e così vicino a noi. Una mostra che lascia aperto l’enigma e si limita a fornire una documentazione delle più significative correnti e qualità artistiche.

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How much life could you find in One Cubic Foot? That's a hunk of ecosystem small enough to fit in your lap. To answer the question, photographer David Liittschwager took a green metal frame, a 12-inch cube, to disparate environments—land and water, tropical and temperate. At each locale he set down the cube and started watching, counting, and photographing with the help of his assistant and many biologists. The goal: to represent the creatures that lived in or moved through that space. The team then sorted through their habitat cubes, coaxing out every inhabitant, down to a size of about a millimeter. Accomplishing that took an average of three weeks at each site. In all, more than a thousand individual organisms were photographed, their diversity represented in this gallery. "It was like finding little gems," Liittschwager says.