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FRONTIERSCYRIL DE COMMARQUE
2014
FRONTIERSCYRIL DE COMMARQUE
2014
A SERIES OF GOLD- PLATED ALUMINIUM SCULPTURES,
IDEALISING BORDERS AND STIGMATISING THEIR EVOLUTIONS: THE NATION
SYMBOL, THE SENSE OF NATION REINFORCED
BY BORDERS DRAWN AS A RESULT OF WAR, THE
NATIONAL IDEAL. IT INVOLVES OVERLAYING
HISTORICAL PATHS, INCORPORATING THE KEY
DATES IN THE HISTORY OF A NATION.
HUNGARY
1,48 m
1,91 m
HUNGARYLAYER 1
LAYER 2
LAYER 3
LAYER 4
The Austro-Hungarian EmpireThe territories of the empire until 1918, when it collapsed as a result of defeat in World War I.
gold plated aluminium profiles96x joints6,71 linear metres
Austria & HungaryThe treaty of Trianon on 4 June 1920 estabilished the new Hungarian borders, decreasing its borders of 71%.
gold plated aluminium profiles66x joints3,67 linear metres
WWII expansionAfter the Vienna Awards of 1938 and 1940, Hungary regained some territories in Czechoslovakia, Subcarpathia, Northern Transylvania and Yugoslavia.
gold plated aluminium profiles45x joints3,61 linear metres
TodayAll the territories regained with the Vienna Awards and during World War II were again lost by Hungary with the Paris Peace Treaty in 1947.
gold plated aluminium profiles33x joints1,99 linear metres
240 total joints 15.98 total linear metres
FRONTIERSCYRIL DE COMMARQUE
2014
ISRAEL
ISRAEL
ISRAEL
FRONTIERSCYRIL DE COMMARQUE
2014
TURKEY
1,75
2,04
LAYER 1
LAYER 2
LAYER 3
TURKEY
The Ottoman EmpireThe situation of the empire after the Balkan Wars in 1912-13
gold plated aluminium profiles193x [52 + 121 + 11 + 9] joints9,55 linear metres [1,95m + 6,96m + 0,34m + 0,30m]
Treaty of SèvresAugust 10, 1920. The peace treaty between the Ottomans and the Allies, at the end of WWI, dramatically reduced the Ottomans’ territory. The treaty was annulled in the course of the Turkish war of Indipendence in 1923.
gold plated aluminium profiles40x joints1,59 linear metres
Treaty of Lausanne until todayJuly 24, 1923. After the peace treaty, the Turkish National Mouvement, guided by Mustafa Kemal ‘Ataturk’, led to the international recognition of the Republic of Turkey as the successor state of the defunct Ottoman Empire.
gold plated aluminium profiles89 joints [16 + 73]3,10 linear metres [0,40m + 2,70m]
322 total joints 14,24 total linear metres
FRONTIERSCYRIL DE COMMARQUE
2014
GERMANY
GERMANY
2,16
1,85
LAYER 1
LAYER 2
LAYER 3
LAYER 3
GERMANY
Deutsches ReichThe German Empire, was the historical German nation state from the unification of Germany in 1871 to the WWI defeat in 1918.
gold plated aluminium profiles128x joints9,30 linear metres
Weimarer RepublikThe federal republic and semipresidential representative democracy established in 1919 in Germany to replace the imperial form of government.
gold plated aluminium profiles135x joints [114 + 21]9,40 linear metres [7,79m + 1,61m]
Deutsche Demokratische RepublikEast Germany was a state in the Eastern Bloc during the Cold War period, from 1949 to 1990.
chrome plated aluminium profiles28x joints [21 + 7]1,37 linear metres [1,21m + 0,16m]
Todaygold plated aluminium profiles
84x joints5,81 linear metres
375 total joints 25,88 total linear metres
FRONTIERSCYRIL DE COMMARQUE
2014
RUSSIA
1,29 m
2,08 m
RUSSIA
USSR The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics was
established in 1922.
gold plated aluminium profiles134x joints
8,66 linear metres
WWIIThe situation after World War II.
gold plated aluminium profiles131x joints
8,38 linear metres
Collapse of the USSRIn 1991 the USSR ceased to exist, leading to the
immediate appearance of 15 independent states, including the present day Russia Federation.
gold plated aluminium profiles118x joints
7,47 linear metres
383 total joints 24.51 total linear metres
