Sabine Réthoré 1998-2010

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Gaïa

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Méditerranée

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The Verb

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Nameless Earth

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Tribute to Sao Tome

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Our Chiefs

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Cool globes Project

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MÉDITERRANÉE PÔLE DE CIVILISATION (2003)

 

This is a dream somewhere between history and science.

I live beside the shores of the Mediterranean and I am often under the impression that I am living on the outskirts of a place that is coiling around its centre.

My social life, that has nothing to do with the stars’ race, is confronted with incessant exchanges. I imagine that this phenomenon has been very satisfying to many natives of mediterranean countries throughout the ages.

This centre, on which human adventures fasten, is very important. It brings me my daily emotional nourishment. It has done this for many people throughout the ages.

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This is one of my favourite globes,  because of its simplicity.

Spectators are often nonplussed when they see the south and the north poles going by together before their eyes, that isn’t surprising, as it is one of the unbalanced globes that I present in my personal collection.

Its axis of rotation goes through Libya, Italy and Greece, the birthplaces of mediterranean civilisation and comes out well beyond the antipodes.

Because of this voluntary incoherence the globe takes on an amusing aspect and begins to look like the air-filled balloons people play with on the beach.

It seems to me that this kind of unanchored object, is easier to observe than a classical globe.