An exhibition featuring work from myself, Hans Dehlinger, Jean-Pierre Hébert, Manfred Mohr, Vera Molnar, Frieder Nake, Roman Verostko, and Mark Wilson. The exhibition runs from 19 November 2011 to 14 January 2012, with an opening on 18 November from 7 – 9 pm.

Tensioned threads, a large scale mural, filigree drawings – gallery [DAM] Berlin is happy to invite you to the exhibition Think Line 2 where you can get involved with an expanded form of drawing using algorithms. The exhibited artworks range from large to small pieces from a spectrum of 40 years of media art. Along with the some pieces the exhibition attaches as well the written concept of them. This allows the viewer to follow (or understand) references and different ways of realization.

In her installation Rectangle Path Vera Molnar takes up an idea, an algorithm, from 1997 and executes this work for the first time as a thread installation of 3 x 3 m size. Rectangle Path follows the rules of concrete art, but opens up the strict concept by using an organic material. “A line is a dot that went for a walk” (Paul Klee) – after the thread has walked its long geometric path, his tail lies soft and formless on the ground.

Casey Reas presents a 4 x 3 m sized mural based on his Tissue Series. This series goes back to 2002 and visualizes the movements of thousands of synthetic neural systems creating delicate formations and a rich visual output by drawing fine lines. In an earlier interactive version of the software people were able to influence the movement of the lines by positioning a group of points on the screen.

Manfred Mohr exhibits 3 small plotter drawings from the early 1970s that he developed even before focusing on the cube. These works are shown for the first time ever.

New large plotter drawings from his series of “blurred” images will be presented by Hans Dehlinger. These pieces evoke an irritating impression of blur for the human eye by overlapping structures created by very fine lines.

The paper works from Mark Wilson are based of fine geometric multilayered structures. They are dense landscapes that Wilson creates in bright high-contrast colors. 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.

Seven Sisters – The Pleiades is a series of 7 colored plotter drawings inspired by the Taurus zodiac sign. Roman Verostko created them in his typical style emphasizing the nature of a shining star by using leaf gold in the upper part of the plotter drawing. From this family of 7 similar “sister-forms”, 2 pieces are featured in the exhibition.

The delicate plotter drawings by Jean-Pierre Hébert are likewise influenced by the Asian masters. His characteristically abstract dense structures have their seeds in natural systems, but are as well the result of a precisely defined concept.

Frieder Nake, who was beneath the first representatives of this art form by exhibiting plotter drawings together with Georg Nees already in 1965, shows some of his earliest pieces.

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