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Through Walls and Layers. Cross Sections in Art and Science
2 May – 30 June 2019

  Press release: Through Walls and Layers
  Figures and caption: Through Walls and Layers
  List of exhibited works

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Fig. 1

Stefan Gritsch (*1951)
ORGAN, 1990-2019
Acrylic volumes (two-piece), 14 x 9.5 x 9 cm

© Courtesy of the artist

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Fig. 2

Peter Emch (*1945)
Stieleiche / Quercus robur (split version), 2000
print from the cycle: Holzdrucke, woodcut on Japan paper
133 x 97 cm

Graphische Sammlung ETH Zürich / © Peter Emch

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Fig. 3

Copper engraving after Agostino Ramelli (1531-1600), from:
Le diverse et artificiose machine del Capitano Agostino Ramelli, Paris, 1588
27.5 x 36.4 cm

Graphische Sammlung ETH Zürich

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Fig. 3

Copper engraving after Agostino Ramelli (1531-1600), from:
Le diverse et artificiose machine del Capitano Agostino Ramelli, Paris, 1588
27.5 x 36.4 cm

Graphische Sammlung ETH Zürich

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Fig. 4

Maria Sibylla Merian (1647-1717)
Hand-coloured copper engraving from:
Veranderingen der Surinaamsche Insecten / De Europische Insecten, Amsterdam, 1730
51.5 x 37.1 cm

Graphische Sammlung ETH Zürich

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Fig. 5

Agate slice, polished
from Thomas Mann's desk 18 x 6.5 x 2 cm

Thomas Mann Archives ETH Zurich

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Fig. 6

Gottfried Semper (1803-1879)
Observatory of the Swiss Federal Polytechnic in Zurich, 1861
North-South section, pencil, pen and ink, watercolour painting in red, ochre and yellow on drawing paper, 62.2 x 87.6 cm

gta-Archiv, Institute for the History and Theory of Architecture, ETH Zurich

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Fig. 7

Tomi Ungerer (1931-2019)
Print from the series Fornicon, 1970
Offset in black on graph paper
38 x 29 cm

Graphische Sammlung ETH Zürich / © Tomi Ungerer

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Fig. 8

Nicolas Henri Jacob (1782-1771)
Hand coloured lithograph after a drawing by Nicolas Henri Jacob (1782-1771), from:
Jean Baptiste Marc Bourgery: Médicine Opératoire, Paris, 1840
31.2 x 42.1 cm

Graphische Sammlung ETH Zürich

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Fig. 9

Arnold Escher (1807-1872) and Albert Heim (1849-1937)
Profile relief of the Säntis Mountains, 19th c.
Scale: 1:25,000

Earth Science Collections ETH Zurich

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T +41 44 632 40 46
presse@gs.ethz.ch

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