KYLE TROWBRIDGE – THE POLITICS OF TIME
2012-03-12For several years Trowbridge has been investigating how technology alters the dynamics of inter-human relationships. His grand new paintings are at once abstract geometric paintings and functioning Quick Response (QR) codes. They are about 8 feet square. Their appearance, paint handling and palette reference canons of abstract geometric painting, such as Gerhard Richter’s Color Chart paintings (1966-), Piet Mondrian’s Broadway Boogie Woogie (1942-43), Hans Hoffman’s later abstract paintings and Josef Albers’ Homage to a Square (1965).
On the other hand, these colorful paintings, once scanned with the proper application, yield a text written by the artist. Usually one sees these QR codes, the next generation of barcodes, on product packaging and promotion materials. Scanning the black and white squares with a QR application on a smart phone can link the user to websites, text, and other kinds of data at a remote source. The hallmark of a QR code is an equal sized square within a square, repeated three times in the lower left, upper left and upper right corners of a larger square. With the frame established, a computer can read, in a zigzagged and zoned pattern, the binary code contained within it.
Exhibition runs through to March 31st, 2012
Dorsch Gallery
151 NW 24 St
Miami
FL
33127
