Gestures
(2004),
Ataturk Cultura Center,
Antalya, Turkey
Gestures, shown at the Ataturk Cultural Center in Antalya, Turkey [2004]], is
the first of Sirlin's exhibitions devoted exclusively to digital
wall drawings. These drawings are produced by a method related to the
process used to create Sirlin's new media installations. The artist begins by
doing a series of gestural drawings, which are then scanned. The scanned
drawings are used as templates by a computer-controlled cutting machine to
produce enlarged versions that can be adhered directly to the wall. The
technical process is quite nuanced: the laser cutter replicates the
subtleties and burred edges of Sirlin's line. Like the new
media installations, Gestures was site-specific in several ways. Sirlin
took the exhibition space into consideration while making the drawings and
only finalized the arrangement of the individual drawings into larger
compositions on site. This particular exhibition constituted a unique
arrangement of elements, which ceased to exist when removed from the wall
and will not be recreated in other contexts. At one level, the title of the
exhibition referred both to the irony of producing gestural drawings,
generally thought to be highly expressive of the artist's hand, by a
method that combines the hand with advanced technologies. But it also
referred to Sirlin's intention to offer the exhibition as gesture
of friendship to the people of Turkey.
Digital Wall Drawings
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