Pia Rönicke, The New York Times SUNDAY, JULY 19, 2015. Trifolium partense, 2015

29,5 x 59 cm

Paper and plant
Variable dimensions
Unique

The project The Pages of Day and Night took its point of departure from the Danish herbarium, located in Copenhagen. Rönicke has been researching Danish expeditions that travelled to different parts of the world, to gather information and material in various fields. One of them was The Danish Arabia Expedition (1761-1767). The expeditions botanist was Peter Forsskål a student of Linnaeus. He managed to collect a larger batch of plant specimens which is now in the Botanical Museum in Copenhagen.
The Pages of Day and Night Rönicke is doing a specimen search between the Forsskål’s collection and the selection of plant species that was shipped from the gene bank in Syria, Aleppo to the Global Seed Vault in Svalbard. Rönicke found a large selection of plant sheets collected in the Middle Eastern region in the period 1760’s -2000’s. The sheets hold various information, from notes on the location, area, and conditions. This documentation she translated through the graphic printing method photogravures, taking the image back to the method of pressing and imprinting. Rönicke has also made a textual filmic map from the Meta data that followed the seeds from Aleppo to Svalbard. Her plant collection shows traces of geo political conditions not only within the practices of systematizing and collecting but also of a notion of territory (the very real and violent ones) based on sifting national borderlines. This collection is creating its own map of new territories. Plants are migrating across national borders and are slowly moving the natural habitat. In the words of the artist, “I am interested in how it is visually possible to detect a dissolution of a system through transformation and displacement of the material”.

Pia Rönicke, Le Monde FRIDAY, Mardi 29 Juillet 1952, Lathyrus sativus, 2015

43 x 57,5 cm

Paper and plant
Variable dimensions
Unique

The project The Pages of Day and Night took its point of departure from the Danish herbarium, located in Copenhagen. Rönicke has been researching Danish expeditions that travelled to different parts of the world, to gather information and material in various fields. One of them was The Danish Arabia Expedition (1761-1767). The expeditions botanist was Peter Forsskål a student of Linnaeus. He managed to collect a larger batch of plant specimens which is now in the Botanical Museum in Copenhagen.
The Pages of Day and Night Rönicke is doing a specimen search between the Forsskål’s collection and the selection of plant species that was shipped from the gene bank in Syria, Aleppo to the Global Seed Vault in Svalbard. Rönicke found a large selection of plant sheets collected in the Middle Eastern region in the period 1760’s -2000’s. The sheets hold various information, from notes on the location, area, and conditions. This documentation she translated through the graphic printing method photogravures, taking the image back to the method of pressing and imprinting. Rönicke has also made a textual filmic map from the Meta data that followed the seeds from Aleppo to Svalbard. Her plant collection shows traces of geo political conditions not only within the practices of systematizing and collecting but also of a notion of territory (the very real and violent ones) based on sifting national borderlines. This collection is creating its own map of new territories. Plants are migrating across national borders and are slowly moving the natural habitat. In the words of the artist, “I am interested in how it is visually possible to detect a dissolution of a system through transformation and displacement of the material”.

Pia Rönicke, Adonis, The Pages of Day and Night, The Marlboro Press/ Northwestern, 1994. Lathyrus pratensis, 2015

23 x 31,5 cm

Paper and plant
Variable dimensions
Unique

The project The Pages of Day and Night took its point of departure from the Danish herbarium, located in Copenhagen. Rönicke has been researching Danish expeditions that travelled to different parts of the world, to gather information and material in various fields. One of them was The Danish Arabia Expedition (1761-1767). The expeditions botanist was Peter Forsskål a student of Linnaeus. He managed to collect a larger batch of plant specimens which is now in the Botanical Museum in Copenhagen.
The Pages of Day and Night Rönicke is doing a specimen search between the Forsskål’s collection and the selection of plant species that was shipped from the gene bank in Syria, Aleppo to the Global Seed Vault in Svalbard. Rönicke found a large selection of plant sheets collected in the Middle Eastern region in the period 1760’s -2000’s. The sheets hold various information, from notes on the location, area, and conditions. This documentation she translated through the graphic printing method photogravures, taking the image back to the method of pressing and imprinting. Rönicke has also made a textual filmic map from the Meta data that followed the seeds from Aleppo to Svalbard. Her plant collection shows traces of geo political conditions not only within the practices of systematizing and collecting but also of a notion of territory (the very real and violent ones) based on sifting national borderlines. This collection is creating its own map of new territories. Plants are migrating across national borders and are slowly moving the natural habitat. In the words of the artist, “I am interested in how it is visually possible to detect a dissolution of a system through transformation and displacement of the material”.

Pia Rönicke, Arabia Felix, The Danish Expedition of 1761-1767 by Thorkild Hansen, Harper & Row Publishers, 1964. Medicago lupu- lina, 2015

24,5 x 35 cm

Paper and plant
Variable dimensions
Unique

The project The Pages of Day and Night took its point of departure from the Danish herbarium, located in Copenhagen. Rönicke has been researching Danish expeditions that travelled to different parts of the world, to gather information and material in various fields. One of them was The Danish Arabia Expedition (1761-1767). The expeditions botanist was Peter Forsskål a student of Linnaeus. He managed to collect a larger batch of plant specimens which is now in the Botanical Museum in Copenhagen.
The Pages of Day and Night Rönicke is doing a specimen search between the Forsskål’s collection and the selection of plant species that was shipped from the gene bank in Syria, Aleppo to the Global Seed Vault in Svalbard. Rönicke found a large selection of plant sheets collected in the Middle Eastern region in the period 1760’s -2000’s. The sheets hold various information, from notes on the location, area, and conditions. This documentation she translated through the graphic printing method photogravures, taking the image back to the method of pressing and imprinting. Rönicke has also made a textual filmic map from the Meta data that followed the seeds from Aleppo to Svalbard. Her plant collection shows traces of geo political conditions not only within the practices of systematizing and collecting but also of a notion of territory (the very real and violent ones) based on sifting national borderlines. This collection is creating its own map of new territories. Plants are migrating across national borders and are slowly moving the natural habitat. In the words of the artist, “I am interested in how it is visually possible to detect a dissolution of a system through transformation and displacement of the material”.

Pia Rönicke, Herald Tribune PARIS, FRIDAY, APRIL 2, 1954, Lathyrus sativus., 2015

41 x 55,5 cm

Paper and plant
Variable dimensions
Unique

The project The Pages of Day and Night took its point of departure from the Danish herbarium, located in Copenhagen. Rönicke has been researching Danish expeditions that travelled to different parts of the world, to gather information and material in various fields. One of them was The Danish Arabia Expedition (1761-1767). The expeditions botanist was Peter Forsskål a student of Linnaeus. He managed to collect a larger batch of plant specimens which is now in the Botanical Museum in Copenhagen.
The Pages of Day and Night Rönicke is doing a specimen search between the Forsskål’s collection and the selection of plant species that was shipped from the gene bank in Syria, Aleppo to the Global Seed Vault in Svalbard. Rönicke found a large selection of plant sheets collected in the Middle Eastern region in the period 1760’s -2000’s. The sheets hold various information, from notes on the location, area, and conditions. This documentation she translated through the graphic printing method photogravures, taking the image back to the method of pressing and imprinting. Rönicke has also made a textual filmic map from the Meta data that followed the seeds from Aleppo to Svalbard. Her plant collection shows traces of geo political conditions not only within the practices of systematizing and collecting but also of a notion of territory (the very real and violent ones) based on sifting national borderlines. This collection is creating its own map of new territories. Plants are migrating across national borders and are slowly moving the natural habitat. In the words of the artist, “I am interested in how it is visually possible to detect a dissolution of a system through transformation and displacement of the material”.

Pia Rönicke, The Pages of Day and Night (Newspapers), 2015

Exhibition view, Pia Rönicke: The Pages of Day and Night, gb agency, Paris, 2015-2016

Paper and plant
Variable dimensions
Unique

The project The Pages of Day and Night took its point of departure from the Danish herbarium, located in Copenhagen. Rönicke has been researching Danish expeditions that travelled to different parts of the world, to gather information and material in various fields. One of them was The Danish Arabia Expedition (1761-1767). The expeditions botanist was Peter Forsskål a student of Linnaeus. He managed to collect a larger batch of plant specimens which is now in the Botanical Museum in Copenhagen.
The Pages of Day and Night Rönicke is doing a specimen search between the Forsskål’s collection and the selection of plant species that was shipped from the gene bank in Syria, Aleppo to the Global Seed Vault in Svalbard. Rönicke found a large selection of plant sheets collected in the Middle Eastern region in the period 1760’s -2000’s. The sheets hold various information, from notes on the location, area, and conditions. This documentation she translated through the graphic printing method photogravures, taking the image back to the method of pressing and imprinting. Rönicke has also made a textual filmic map from the Meta data that followed the seeds from Aleppo to Svalbard. Her plant collection shows traces of geo political conditions not only within the practices of systematizing and collecting but also of a notion of territory (the very real and violent ones) based on sifting national borderlines. This collection is creating its own map of new territories. Plants are migrating across national borders and are slowly moving the natural habitat. In the words of the artist, “I am interested in how it is visually possible to detect a dissolution of a system through transformation and displacement of the material”.

Pia Rönicke, AN-NAHAR 13 Juillet 1979. Melilotus alba, 2015

43 x 58 cm

Paper and plant
Variable dimensions
Unique

The project The Pages of Day and Night took its point of departure from the Danish herbarium, located in Copenhagen. Rönicke has been researching Danish expeditions that travelled to different parts of the world, to gather information and material in various fields. One of them was The Danish Arabia Expedition (1761-1767). The expeditions botanist was Peter Forsskål a student of Linnaeus. He managed to collect a larger batch of plant specimens which is now in the Botanical Museum in Copenhagen.
The Pages of Day and Night Rönicke is doing a specimen search between the Forsskål’s collection and the selection of plant species that was shipped from the gene bank in Syria, Aleppo to the Global Seed Vault in Svalbard. Rönicke found a large selection of plant sheets collected in the Middle Eastern region in the period 1760’s -2000’s. The sheets hold various information, from notes on the location, area, and conditions. This documentation she translated through the graphic printing method photogravures, taking the image back to the method of pressing and imprinting. Rönicke has also made a textual filmic map from the Meta data that followed the seeds from Aleppo to Svalbard. Her plant collection shows traces of geo political conditions not only within the practices of systematizing and collecting but also of a notion of territory (the very real and violent ones) based on sifting national borderlines. This collection is creating its own map of new territories. Plants are migrating across national borders and are slowly moving the natural habitat. In the words of the artist, “I am interested in how it is visually possible to detect a dissolution of a system through transformation and displacement of the material”.

Pia Rönicke, LIFE JUNE 17, 1957. Lolium perenne, 2015

36 x 53 cm

Paper and plant
Variable dimensions
Unique

The project The Pages of Day and Night took its point of departure from the Danish herbarium, located in Copenhagen. Rönicke has been researching Danish expeditions that travelled to different parts of the world, to gather information and material in various fields. One of them was The Danish Arabia Expedition (1761-1767). The expeditions botanist was Peter Forsskål a student of Linnaeus. He managed to collect a larger batch of plant specimens which is now in the Botanical Museum in Copenhagen.
The Pages of Day and Night Rönicke is doing a specimen search between the Forsskål’s collection and the selection of plant species that was shipped from the gene bank in Syria, Aleppo to the Global Seed Vault in Svalbard. Rönicke found a large selection of plant sheets collected in the Middle Eastern region in the period 1760’s -2000’s. The sheets hold various information, from notes on the location, area, and conditions. This documentation she translated through the graphic printing method photogravures, taking the image back to the method of pressing and imprinting. Rönicke has also made a textual filmic map from the Meta data that followed the seeds from Aleppo to Svalbard. Her plant collection shows traces of geo political conditions not only within the practices of systematizing and collecting but also of a notion of territory (the very real and violent ones) based on sifting national borderlines. This collection is creating its own map of new territories. Plants are migrating across national borders and are slowly moving the natural habitat. In the words of the artist, “I am interested in how it is visually possible to detect a dissolution of a system through transformation and displacement of the material”.

Pia Rönicke, THE TIMES, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 1863. Pisum sativum, 2015

45 x 60 cm

Paper and plant
Variable dimensions
Unique

The project The Pages of Day and Night took its point of departure from the Danish herbarium, located in Copenhagen. Rönicke has been researching Danish expeditions that travelled to different parts of the world, to gather information and material in various fields. One of them was The Danish Arabia Expedition (1761-1767). The expeditions botanist was Peter Forsskål a student of Linnaeus. He managed to collect a larger batch of plant specimens which is now in the Botanical Museum in Copenhagen.
The Pages of Day and Night Rönicke is doing a specimen search between the Forsskål’s collection and the selection of plant species that was shipped from the gene bank in Syria, Aleppo to the Global Seed Vault in Svalbard. Rönicke found a large selection of plant sheets collected in the Middle Eastern region in the period 1760’s -2000’s. The sheets hold various information, from notes on the location, area, and conditions. This documentation she translated through the graphic printing method photogravures, taking the image back to the method of pressing and imprinting. Rönicke has also made a textual filmic map from the Meta data that followed the seeds from Aleppo to Svalbard. Her plant collection shows traces of geo political conditions not only within the practices of systematizing and collecting but also of a notion of territory (the very real and violent ones) based on sifting national borderlines. This collection is creating its own map of new territories. Plants are migrating across national borders and are slowly moving the natural habitat. In the words of the artist, “I am interested in how it is visually possible to detect a dissolution of a system through transformation and displacement of the material”.

Pia Rönicke, CORRIERED’INFORMAZIONE, Martedi-Mercoledi 1-2 Giugno 1948. Dactylis glomerata, 2015

42,5 x 58 cm

Paper and plant
Variable dimensions
Unique

The project The Pages of Day and Night took its point of departure from the Danish herbarium, located in Copenhagen. Rönicke has been researching Danish expeditions that travelled to different parts of the world, to gather information and material in various fields. One of them was The Danish Arabia Expedition (1761-1767). The expeditions botanist was Peter Forsskål a student of Linnaeus. He managed to collect a larger batch of plant specimens which is now in the Botanical Museum in Copenhagen.
The Pages of Day and Night Rönicke is doing a specimen search between the Forsskål’s collection and the selection of plant species that was shipped from the gene bank in Syria, Aleppo to the Global Seed Vault in Svalbard. Rönicke found a large selection of plant sheets collected in the Middle Eastern region in the period 1760’s -2000’s. The sheets hold various information, from notes on the location, area, and conditions. This documentation she translated through the graphic printing method photogravures, taking the image back to the method of pressing and imprinting. Rönicke has also made a textual filmic map from the Meta data that followed the seeds from Aleppo to Svalbard. Her plant collection shows traces of geo political conditions not only within the practices of systematizing and collecting but also of a notion of territory (the very real and violent ones) based on sifting national borderlines. This collection is creating its own map of new territories. Plants are migrating across national borders and are slowly moving the natural habitat. In the words of the artist, “I am interested in how it is visually possible to detect a dissolution of a system through transformation and displacement of the material”.

Pia Rönicke, The Pages of Day and Night (Newspapers), 2015

Exhibition view, Pia Rönicke: The Pages of Day and Night, gb agency, Paris, 2015-2016

Paper and plant
Variable dimensions
Unique

The project The Pages of Day and Night took its point of departure from the Danish herbarium, located in Copenhagen. Rönicke has been researching Danish expeditions that travelled to different parts of the world, to gather information and material in various fields. One of them was The Danish Arabia Expedition (1761-1767). The expeditions botanist was Peter Forsskål a student of Linnaeus. He managed to collect a larger batch of plant specimens which is now in the Botanical Museum in Copenhagen.
The Pages of Day and Night Rönicke is doing a specimen search between the Forsskål’s collection and the selection of plant species that was shipped from the gene bank in Syria, Aleppo to the Global Seed Vault in Svalbard. Rönicke found a large selection of plant sheets collected in the Middle Eastern region in the period 1760’s -2000’s. The sheets hold various information, from notes on the location, area, and conditions. This documentation she translated through the graphic printing method photogravures, taking the image back to the method of pressing and imprinting. Rönicke has also made a textual filmic map from the Meta data that followed the seeds from Aleppo to Svalbard. Her plant collection shows traces of geo political conditions not only within the practices of systematizing and collecting but also of a notion of territory (the very real and violent ones) based on sifting national borderlines. This collection is creating its own map of new territories. Plants are migrating across national borders and are slowly moving the natural habitat. In the words of the artist, “I am interested in how it is visually possible to detect a dissolution of a system through transformation and displacement of the material”.