ULLA WIGGEN – VISIONARY MACHINERIES
2023-05-29In 1963, Ulla Wiggen started to make meticulous gouache paintings on gauze depicting electronic components, circuit boards, and the insides of computers. Although rendered with a quasi-objective accuracy and loosely based on real components, her diagrammatic representations are, in fact, fantastical interpretations; from a technical standpoint, the circuits are incoherent and non-functional. A few years later, Wiggen began using acrylic paints on panels and slowly increased the size of her works. But despite these changes in scale and medium, her content remained firmly within the sphere of technological portraiture.
Opposite – Sfinx, 1969
Exhibition runs through to August 26th, 2023
Galerie Buchholz
Fasanenstraße 30
10719 Berlin
Germany
