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Netherlands
Drawing, Charcoal on Paper
Size: 59 W x 78.7 H x 5 D in
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Rigorous in their monumental firmness, characters depicted in Irina Birger’s immense charcoal drawings stare at the observer, evoking spooky sensations of being traced. The new series developed by the artist in 2015 brings together ‘portraits’ of data cables. Visually based on the powerful language of central symmetry, and reminiscent of totalitarian iconography, these sometimes fierce, sometimes funny creatures remind us of robots from classic Sci-fi movies such as Metropolis, or Star Wars. Drastic isolation and enlargement enrich the objects of everyday use with new qualities, at times miraculously endowing them with human features. Animated by the hand of the artist cables transform into totems, spiritual beings and worship objects, sacred to some community. Just as totems serve as a magic tool for connecting the border between physical and metaphysical worlds, cables establish links that otherwise wouldn't be imaginable. Information technology has burst into the contemporary perception of the self and the sense of belonging to a group. It establishes and supervises psychological and emotional ties between individuals in the society. Drawing everyday objects, like computer accessories becomes for the artist a way of writing diaries about modernity: documenting and archiving traces of the present moment that might disappear tomorrow. In the current series Birger does not only explore this human desire for connectivity, our physical transformation through centuries and our role in creating and supporting power mechanisms. She technically juxtaposes the oldest drawing technique used in primordial cave drawings with contemporary means of information transfer.
Original Created:2015
Subjects:Technology
Materials:Paper
Styles:RealismConceptualPop Art
Mediums:Charcoal
Drawing:Charcoal on Paper
Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork
Size:59 W x 78.7 H x 5 D in
Frame:White
Ready to Hang:Not applicable
Packaging:Ships in a Crate
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Ships From:Netherlands.
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Growing up in the Soviet Union, Irina Birger experienced the powerful mechanisms of propaganda that repress independent thought and inquiry. Its methods were not just practical, but also extremely visual. Social Realist style and Stalinist Imperial architecture greatly influenced her artistic development. Their monumental arrangements inspire admiration, humility and wonder, similar to the visual impact of the Russian Orthodox Church and other sacred formations. As a result, she is strongly interested in the visual strategies and formal principles of different religions, cults and totalitarian regimes, and incorporate them in her work. Central symmetry, patterns, slogans and monumental approach appear in her drawings, installations and animations. Birger's visual language takes its cue from patterns and structures in science, myth, astrology, pop-culture, news articles, everyday objects and personal items. She selects, isolates, arranges and reconnects them. Each work is a mini universe with its own system. Spending most of time in her studio, she always focused on drawing as her major medium. In the last few years Birger started to use drawing as a site-specific part of an installation, in performances, and as elements in the public space and in animations.
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