Think Line 2, Hans Dehlinger, Manfred Mohr, Roman Verostko, Casey Reas, Frieder Nake, Jean-Pierre Hébert, Vera Molnar, Mark Wilson
Hans Dehlinger is presenting new large plotter drawings from his series of "blurred" images. Through overlapping structures made of very fine lines, these pieces evoke an irritating impression of blur for the human eye.
Manfred Mohr exhibits 3 small plotter drawings from the early 1970s that he developed even before focussing on the cube. These works are shown for the very first time.
Seven Sisters - The Pleiades is a series of 7 coloured plotter drawings inspired by the pleiades in the zodiac sign of the Taurus. Roman Verostko created them in his typical east-asian style, emphasizing the nature of a shining star by using leaf gold in the upper part of the plotter drawing. Two pieces from this family of seven similar "sister-forms" are featured in the exhibition.
Casey Reas presents a 4 x 3 m sized mural based on his Tissue Series. This series goes back to an interactive software from 2002 in which people were able to influence the movement of lines by positioning a group of points on the screen.
The movements of thousands of synthetic neural systems create delicate formations and a rich visual output by drawing fine lines.
Frieder Nake was one of the first representatives of this art form when he exhibited plotter drawings together with Georg Nees already in 1965. He shows some of his earliest pieces.
Like Verostko's work, the delicate plotter drawings by Jean-Pierre Hébert are influenced by east-asian masters. His characteristically abstract dense structures have their seeds in natural systems, but are as well the result of a precisely defined concept.
In her installation Rectangle Path Vera Molnar takes up an idea, an algorithm, from 1997. For the first time, she now executes this work as a thread installation of 3 x 3 m size. Rectangle Path follows the rules of concrete art but opens up its strict concept by using an organic material. "A line is a dot that went for a walk" (Paul Klee) - after the woolen thread has walked its long geometric path, its tail lies soft and formless on the ground.
The paperworks from Mark Wilson are based on fine geometric multilayered structures. They are dense formscapes that Wilson creates in bright high-contrast colours. The exhibition features new works as well as a piece of 2 m length which was shown in the exhibition Ornamental Structures at the Stadtgalerie Saarbrücken this summer.
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