Richard Dupont: Out of Hand

“The forms I end up with couldn’t have been done without using digital tools, but you have to disrespect them on some level,” [Dupont] said. “It’s much more interesting if you can disrupt the expectations of what the technology can do.”
—Richard Dupont (as quoted in the New York Times, October 25, 2013)

Richard Dupont rethinks digital art. His exhibit, Out of Hand: Materializing the PostDigital, is currently on display at The Museum of Arts and Design in New York. This is the first major museum exhibition to focus entirely on digital fabrication methods like 3D printing and numerically controlled milling. Dupont has even taken 3-D scans of his own body and fabricated them using computer numerically controlled milling with traditional plaster casting. His work is a marriage of past and future; rigidity and fluidity.

“The forms I end up with couldn’t have been done without using digital tools, but you have to disrespect them on some level,” he recently told the New York Times. “It’s much more interesting if you can disrupt the expectations of what the technology can do.”

Click here to read more about Dupont’s exhibit in the NYT.

Posted on November 11, 2013 by Galerie Maximillian