Karl Gerstener (1930-2017) - Sculpture, Algorhitmus 2 - 32 cm - Acrylic - 1972
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Karl Gerstner’s Algorhitmus 2 is a signed screen print on acrylic, measuring 32 by 32 by 9.5 cm, dated 1972, in blue, edition 10/75, from Germany, and weighing 5 kg in the contemporary minimalist style.
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Karl Gerstner
Algorithm 2, screen printing on acrylic, 32 x 32 x 9.5 cm, 1975
Karl Gerstner (born July 2, 1930 in Basel; died January 1, 2017 in the same place) was a Swiss graphic designer, advertiser, author of technical books, painter of concrete art, and a major representative of Swiss typography.
Since the surfaces are designed asymmetrically, for a single plate there are initially:
Front side visible: 4 orientations — top, bottom, left, right
Back side visible: 4 orientations — top, bottom, left, right
so
2 x 4 = 8
different image orientations per plate.
With four plates, the orientations yield:
8^4 = 4,096
The four distinguishable plates can also be arranged in
4! = 24
different sequences in a row.
Thus:
4,096 x 24 = 98,304
There are thus 98,304 possible configurations,
when
1. every plate can show front or back,
2. every visible image surface can be brought into four orientations — top, bottom, left, right —,
3. the four plates can be arranged in any order,
4. and no two color surfaces or orientations are visually identical.
That corresponds to the astonishingly large number of variants that can arise from only four physical plates.
The front plate always allows the three plates behind it to remain visible through its transparent areas.
Each configuration is a superposition of four individual image states. The 98,304 is the number of possible arrangements from which the visible compositions result.
The additional variants made possible by lighting are, of course, virtually infinite.
Karl Gerstner:
documenta III. International Exhibition; Catalog: Volume 1: Painting and Sculpture; Volume 2: Drawings; Volume 3: Industrial Design, Graphic; Kassel/Cologne 1964.
Exhibition catalog for IV. documenta: IV. documenta. International Exhibition; Catalog: Volume 1: (Painting and Sculpture); Volume 2: (Graphic/Objects); Kassel 1968.
1973: Museum of Modern Art, New York City: Designing Programs/Programming Designs: An Exhibition of Karl Gerstner, curated by Emilio Ambasz.
Categories:
Book designer (Switzerland) Typographer (Switzerland) Graphic designer (Switzerland) Artist (documenta)
Member of the Academy of Arts (Berlin) Artist of concrete art, painter (Switzerland) Author, art collector
Photos are part of the condition description.
Karl Gerstner
Algorithm 2, screen printing on acrylic, 32 x 32 x 9.5 cm, 1975
Karl Gerstner (born July 2, 1930 in Basel; died January 1, 2017 in the same place) was a Swiss graphic designer, advertiser, author of technical books, painter of concrete art, and a major representative of Swiss typography.
Since the surfaces are designed asymmetrically, for a single plate there are initially:
Front side visible: 4 orientations — top, bottom, left, right
Back side visible: 4 orientations — top, bottom, left, right
so
2 x 4 = 8
different image orientations per plate.
With four plates, the orientations yield:
8^4 = 4,096
The four distinguishable plates can also be arranged in
4! = 24
different sequences in a row.
Thus:
4,096 x 24 = 98,304
There are thus 98,304 possible configurations,
when
1. every plate can show front or back,
2. every visible image surface can be brought into four orientations — top, bottom, left, right —,
3. the four plates can be arranged in any order,
4. and no two color surfaces or orientations are visually identical.
That corresponds to the astonishingly large number of variants that can arise from only four physical plates.
The front plate always allows the three plates behind it to remain visible through its transparent areas.
Each configuration is a superposition of four individual image states. The 98,304 is the number of possible arrangements from which the visible compositions result.
The additional variants made possible by lighting are, of course, virtually infinite.
Karl Gerstner:
documenta III. International Exhibition; Catalog: Volume 1: Painting and Sculpture; Volume 2: Drawings; Volume 3: Industrial Design, Graphic; Kassel/Cologne 1964.
Exhibition catalog for IV. documenta: IV. documenta. International Exhibition; Catalog: Volume 1: (Painting and Sculpture); Volume 2: (Graphic/Objects); Kassel 1968.
1973: Museum of Modern Art, New York City: Designing Programs/Programming Designs: An Exhibition of Karl Gerstner, curated by Emilio Ambasz.
Categories:
Book designer (Switzerland) Typographer (Switzerland) Graphic designer (Switzerland) Artist (documenta)
Member of the Academy of Arts (Berlin) Artist of concrete art, painter (Switzerland) Author, art collector
Photos are part of the condition description.
Details
Plastic type
Acrylic
Style subtype
Minimalist
Era
1900-2000
Style
Contemporary
Country of origin
Germany
Material
Acrylic, Glass, Plastic, Resin
Artist
Karl Gerstener (1930-2017)
Title of artwork
Algorhitmus 2
Signature
Signed
Edition
10/75
Year
1972
Colour
Blue
Condition
Fair condition
Height
32 cm
Width
32 cm
Depth
9.5 cm
Weight
5 kg
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