While I haven’t yet fully digested the ideas behind the work of Berlin-based artist Jorinde Voigt, I thought I’d go ahead and post her work now anyway, as it’s pretty amazing. (Click the top image for a full view.)
From an article by Hans-Jürgen Hafner:
“…Jorinde Voigt (b. 1977) analyses the medium- specific, i.e. the formal, technical, conceptual and content-related potentials of drawing, which she pushes to their limits: the way in which, seen from afar, the artist’s compositions – from small formats to large-sized strands of paper – appear like swift gestural materialisations of forms, while a closer look reveals the individual strokes to be signs, carefully distributed arrows, oft-repeated words, structuring diagrams, or ordering lists; the way in which each work, behind a rhetoric of draughtsmanship, stages as its actual motif a system (of meaning/ordering) based on a kind of visual grammar of obviously reference-laden symbols. Thus drawing and writing are made to coincide.”
