MARKUS RIEBE
„My intention: healthy chaos, healthy amorphousness in a known medium which consciously warmed a cold, torpid form from the past, a convention of society, and which makes possible future forms.“ Joseph Beuys
Markus Riebe is an Austria based artist and started integrating the computer into his artistic work in the 80s of the last century, and even then he did not regard the computer as a tool, but as a method of approaching images and enabling new ways of thinking. Markus Riebe’s art reveals an extended level of perception in each picture. Thanks to a lenticular disc, a three-dimensional space opens up within it, but it keeps changing, depending on the angle from which it is viewed.
Starting with computer-generated drawings, abstract and representational elements come floating forward, set against map-like or fictitious backgrounds. These elements originate from an artificially designed world, defining space as a place of perception and experience. As the 3D effect of his works cannot be mapped onto photographs, Markus Riebe creates the spatial impact by means of an animated image file. In the meantime the workgroups Perfect Magic", "digital/analog", "D/A converter", "Avatars", "Territories", "Air Corridors", "Sensitive Machines“ showed different variants of the interactions between artist and computer, an essential part of the recent series are lenticular images from the series "Form / Code / Maps" and „Digital Echoes“, areas of experience such as landscape, body, space, atmosphere translate into fluctuating computer-generated 3-D images.
