Ligns

Michael Winkler, artist

born 1952

Ligns, 2006

Where object was made: United States

Material/technique: inkjet print; laser print; ink; rubber stamping; card stock; wove paper

Dimensions:
Object Height/Width/Depth (Height x Width x Depth): 216 x 280 x 4 mm
Object Height/Width/Depth (Height x Width x Depth): 8 1/2 x 11 x 0 3/16 in

Credit line: Museum purchase: Elmer F. Pierson Fund

Accession number: 2012.0006

Not on display

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Cryptograph: An Exhibition for Alan Turing

“Language is curled and bent to replicate an intuitive process”
In this statement, pulled from the idiogrammatic text of Ligns, the author/ artist reveals how his work conflates word and image by creating linear ciphers that correspond to words by connecting letters arranged in circular diagrams. The artist calls these signs “spelled forms,” a term that seems to link the process of spelling to the fabrication of forms through drawing or sculpture. While Winkler uses these ciphers throughout many of his artworks, Ligns functions as a kind of manifesto, articulating the artist’s thoughts about the intersections of visual and written communication and their confluence in codes and symbols.

Exhibition Label:
"Cryptograph: An Exhibition for Alan Turing," Mar-2012, Stephen Goddard
“Language is curled and bent to replicate an intuitive process” In this statement, pulled from the idiogrammatic text of Ligns, the author/artist reveals how his work conflates word and image by creating linear ciphers that correspond to words by connecting letters arranged in circular diagrams. The artist calls these signs “spelled forms,” a term that seems to link the process of spelling to the fabrication of forms through drawing or sculpture. While Winkler uses these ciphers throughout many of his artworks, Ligns functions as a kind of manifesto, articulating the artist's thoughts about the intersections of visual and written communication and their confluence in codes and symbols.