Companions
Borgmann Nathusius / Moltkestr. 32, Köln, Germany
Press Release / April 27 - May 29 2002
(mis-translated from German via Google)
In this single exhibition sculptures, wall work and designs will have to be seen. Robinsons bildhauerische processes are based on a Algorhitmus, a gradually running shaping of a methodical computing procedure. At the beginning stands a two-dimensional picture, which is transformed into a three-dimensional object. Multi colour foam material layers that from different perspectives regards, this object times as sculpture and times as the original two-dimensional picture to appear one on the other-set in such a way. Which presents itself first as abstraction, as concrete picture one notices shortly thereafter. Starting point for these work were the first robot of the company Honda, fussballspielendes a robot team, sketched after human model, as well as the Aibo dog series of Sony.
Robinson's series of Wandmalereien develops with the help of a old-fashionable computer program. First a model of the showroom in the computer is provided, whose walls from the same foam material are simulated as the sculptures. The light situation in showroom is likewise simulated in the computer, increased there extremely and transferred then to the material walls in the showroom of the gallery. Thus develop abstract samples, which reflect the simulated at the material space situation.
In the work of Steve Robinson human creations and scenarios are developed, those with the Potenzial, which and the psychological irritation of new technologies play ambivalence. For the viewer thereby new scenes of visualizing and experimenting develop.
Steve Robinson lives and works in New York.