CURRENT EXHIBITION
Scrollbars by Jan Robert Leegte
22 April - 24 June 2005
Mon - Fri
10am - 5.30pm
Jan Robert Leegte's 'Scrollbars' is a sculptural installation
which references the architecture of software.
Scrollbars by Jan Robert Leegte
Jan Robert's work investigates the point where the mind starts
to confuse what is reality and what is illusion, with particular
focus on the physical experience of the audience. His installation
work isolates elements of the Windows interface, which are in
turn projected onto various structures; previously internet-based,
he moved to physical installations through a desire to develop
a more meditative relationship between the audience and the work.
Scrollbar
by Jan Robert Leegte
The exhibition will show a selection of Scrollbar pieces for the
first time: a minimal ground piece, Scrollbar, a horizontal scrollbar
isolated from its original context and given a presence in a physical
space, along with the double Scrollbars and a new installation,
a complex composition of many scrollbars forming a rectangular
screen.
Themes explored through the series range from a minimal sculptural
statement in Scrollbar, through the adaptation of architectural
space and references to issues around virtual space in Scrollbars,
to the continuation and consideration of modernist compositional
aesthetics and simplicity in Scrollbar Composition.
Scrollbar Composition
by Jan robert Leegte
Jan Robert started exploring the sculptural
properties of internet browsers and software in general in 1997,
using buttons, scrollbars, and table borders in online installations;
in earlier sculptural works he used unusual materials, for instance
creating walls from sheets of Xerox copy paper or large slabs
of brown packing paper. The various elements of the browser window
appear to have a striking physical reality, gained through user
familiarity, interactivity and animation. Most people consider
the scrollbar to be a virtual object, not weighted with any real-world
significance, but in use it triggers reactions such as frustration,
anger, and boredom-induced clicking. Reactions like these suggest
a subconscious acceptance of the inherent 'reality' of these objects.
Jan Robert studied Architecture at the Technical
University in Delft and Fine Arts at the Willem de Kooning Academy
in Rotterdam. He lives and works in Amsterdam.
Read Peter Luining's interview with Jan Robert Leegte:
http://www.netartreview.net/weeklyFeatures/2004_03_21_archive.html
Jan Robert's recent curatorial project, 'The Anatomy of the
Now':
http://www.theanatomyofthenow.org/
Jan Robert Leegte's Website:
http://www.leegte.org
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