Interpolation IX

Interpolation VIII

Interpolation VII

Interpolation VI

Interpolation V

Interpolation IV

Interpolation III

Interpolation II

Interpolation I

Series of plotter drawings that extend Hanne Darboven's <a href='https://www.mercedes-benz.art/en/artwork/konstruktionen-new-york-hanne-darboven-new-york-196667-2/' target='_blank'>Konstruktionen</a> (1966) through interpolation. For each work, the lines of an existing Darboven construction are traced, and software then computes the lines that would lie between them — drawing out a continuum the original only implied. The results are plotted onto millimeter paper.

Interpolations

Tires

Bamboo

Pole

Rotan

Serif I

Bones

Serif II

Plateaux (monochrome)

Monochrome Drawings

Suite of eight monochrome plotter drawings. The mechanical plotter and the calligraphy brush introduce subtle variation in direction, stroke width, and ink density, so no two are identical.

Edition of 20   
Signed and stamped

Monochrome Drawings Edition

Fully on-chain, by Harm van den Dorpel, 2026

AP in response to the work 'Move (Blockade)' by Herbert W. Franke (1991)

Fully on-chain, by Harm van den Dorpel, 2026

Okazaki, Sakamoto, van den Dorpel, Murayama

Takuro Someya Contemporary Art is pleased to announce the upcoming solo exhibition Cloud Writings by Harm van den Dorpel. This marks his first solo exhibition at the gallery and features a series of works including new pieces unveiled for the first time in Japan. In this exhibition, van den Dorpel presents algorithmic drawings shaped by his generative practice and the ideas of female artists active in minimalism and conceptual art in the late 20th century.

<a href='https://tsca.jp/exhibition/harm-van-den-dorpel-cloud-writings/' target='_blank'>Gallery Website...</a>

Photos by Shu Nakagawa

Cloud Writings

Anni

Generative software installation, dimensions variable.

Installed across 1 to 6 screens, each rendering the same work at an increasing level of resolution or granularity. Pictured is a 4-screen configuration at resolutions 1, 2, 4, and 6.

At a set interval, all screens simultaneously rebuild from top to bottom, governed by the same mutating rules and colour palette.

Edition of 3 + 1AP. Each edition supports between 1 and 6 screens. As a multichannel software installation, the work is not suited to NFT distribution.

Anni (sync)

This work began with a photograph I took of a yarrow plant (Achillea millefolium) growing by the roadside near my studio in spring. I formulated an algorithm to derive the grain of the plant: the directions in which its stems, leaves and flowers run, the course of its fibres and veins. These directions were reconstructed as Bézier curves in light green, dark green, orange-pink and yellow, and drawn onto paper with a pen plotter. The plant appears four times, and from left to right the number of curves increases. It grows again, not organically, but through accumulation in granularity. What begins as a sparse network of lines gradually becomes dense fields of colour: from drawn towards painted.

Activity

Interpolations

Monochrome Drawings Edition

Spring

Game

Night

De Stijl

Stained

Markov's Dream

Mother of Pearl

Blockade

Cloud Writings

Quantizer ༡༡༤

Quantizer ༦༦

Quantizer ༡༥༨

Anni (sync)

Achillea Millefolium

Swath

Tract

Wednesday, April 2 2019, 14:12:13

Wednesday, April 3 2019, 15:13:14

Crystallophobia

Kosi ⟋ 1466

Catlrdine ⟋ 47

Philoh ⟋ 31

Leenia ⟋ 698