Niko Abramidis &NE, Visionary CBDs, 2020

2020

Medium

N-Machine Drawing, RFID chip

Dimensions

42 × 29.5 cm

Status

In Gallery Collection

Collect24 Art ID

C24-155934

Niko Abramidis &NE's N-Machine Drawings are created from scanned drawings that are transferred with the help of an old pen plotter. With this technique, the artist developed an efficient system for the organization and further processing of spontaneous sketches by the computer without losing the personal lines of a hand drawing. The N-drawing machine thus functions as the artist's extended arm – an apparatus that always draws with the same concentration: “Machines help me with my work. The translation by the machine creates a new level of abstraction. I change the author's role and start deciphering my own work with the graphics program. It is a translation with changes. The spontaneous hand drawing is engineered.” In the exhibited works, Niko Abramidis &NE combines individual elements from the cosmos of his fictional financial world, thereby creating new narrative images, cycles and strategic plans. As if checked or commented on with a marker, the works on paper also have green symbols. RFID chips on the drawings connect the artist's analog and digital work cosmos and can be read by scanning with a smartphone.