Hardlink

installation
styrofoam
290 x 290 x 290 cm

May 26 - 30 2010

No Holds Barred - Art Amsterdam, Amsterdam

 

 

 

 

 

The sculpture hardlink derives from the fascinating patterns of QRcodes that nowadays pop up everywhere and on anything. Generated by computers, their characteristic constellations of neutral squares are always unique one-offs. Scanning a QR Code, using a smart phone, gives direct access to specific background information on the Internet.

 

hardlink is indeed no more, yet no less, than a giant QRcode, extruded into three dimensions. The code’s squares have become vertical beams; together they form a semitransparent, yet impenetrable labyrinth. As always in Willem Besselink’s oeuvre, this work focuses on the hidden beauty of rule based patterns. A scan of hardlink’s code, via the mirror above the sculpture or via the handout, will take you to the Internet, which however, instantly and unrelentingly, redirects back to the actual sculpture – it itself the display.