Nets
Weaving Webs in Art
28 July to 16 November 2014
Nets: Weaving Webs in Art presented around 55 works by 25 contemporary artists, including an historical excursion comprising prints, drawings, and botanical specimens from the 16th through the 19th century. The exhibition focused on notions about nets and webs, mounting work not only explored those naturally woven nets, such as spiders’ webs, but also the terms and entities we associate with webs and nets, such as data in diagram structures or using the flexible data we find in the Internet. Net structures interlink images, texts, and acoustic signals. They are constantly on the move and an essential part of our global world today. The role played by science and mathematics, creative code forms, and cartographic visualization is just as pivotal as the sociopolitical dimensions of networks. The exhibition Nets thus engaged with key issues confronting us in the world today and, at the same time, delved into subject matter that has fascinated humankind for many thousands of years; nets and webs are in fact metaphorical entities, which already since antiquity have fascinated artists and poets alike.
A catalog had been published to accompany the exhibition.