Rugs & Cities

The artistic idea is based on explorations in space and time. If one wants to get to know a city, he must take it under his feet, follow its veins, nerve cords, and currents, surrender to the rhythm of its pulse, and let himself drift.

With great intensity, the artist Urs Eberle (www.urs-eberle.ch) has undertaken just this during his visits to world-famous cities.

Every day, he took a route and recorded his wanderings. However, he did not limit himself to marking his paths on a map but isolated the traces he had traced in the computer on a digital city map so that they form networks of lines detached from them.

His “maps” now meet us in the Flying Art Carpet Collection as abstract forms and line meshes. They trace the invisible traces of people in space in abstracted line formations. For this reason, the carpet artworks each bear the name of a city.