Nomas* Projects

C M Y K

Robert Orchardson

Location: 9a Ward Road, Dundee, DD1 1LP

Robert Orchardson graduated from DJCAD in 1998 and Goldsmiths
College, London in 2004.  Orchardson’s work draws upon sources
from modernist architecture and futuristic design, to utopian texts,
stage sets or details from science fiction films.

For Nomas* Projects Orchardson has applied the work directly to
glass.  Highly coloured imagery based on crystalline forms is
reproduced in Cyan, magenta, yellow and black.  The suggestion
is that the imagery is in the process of being printed through a
colour separation process, though the “final” product is missing.
As such the imagery takes on a provisional quality.

The work emerges in response to Paul Scheerbart’s book
“The Grey Cloth”.  In the novel, the architect travels the world
producing outlandish modern glass buildings in a dazzling array
of bright colours.  The perfection of the transcendent, modernist
experience he proposes is interrupted by the frustrating taste of
those for whom the buildings are designed.

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