- Venue
- 707 Penn Gallery
- Starts
- Friday, October 12, 2012
- Ends
- Sunday, November 18, 2012
- Address
- 707 Penn Avenue Pittsburgh, PA 15222
- Location
Liberi’s inspiration for iPad drawings comes from both the tradition of detailed scientific botanical drawings and the elaborate cellular intricacies of contemporary biology and gene research. In this installation, the relationship between organic matter and personal technology is explored; the origins of each contain a similar precise, complex and yet mysterious beauty. The ambient noise from an operating room pulses underneath a soundtrack that includes children playing at a beach, a distant thunderstorm, airplanes taking off and landing, a secluded brook, bird song, and the sound of glass, shattering in flames. It climaxes with an excerpt of the aria Ombra Mai Fu from Handel’s opera Xerxes, performed by Germany’s experimental musical group DigiEnsemble Berlin, entirely on smartphones and tablets. Liberi is prolific, producing at least one drawing per day, which uses the previous day’s image as its starting point. They are exhibited within minutes of completion, all around the world, via social media. In this way, Liberi revolutionizes the place of art in our lives, making it a readily accessible, free daily event, as well as challenging the way we traditionally view art. The phone in your hand is a gallery. It’s also a paintbrush, a canvas – a space of private reflection.
