Catalan polymath, Ramon Llull was the first person to conceive a device able to externalise the human mind. In his seminal opus, the Ars Magna, Llull … [Read more...]
“The process I use has nothing at all of that of an ‘artist’ nor does it have anything in common with an ‘artistic gesture’”. Dom Hans van der Laan’s Plastic Number
Dutch Benedictine architect and monk Dom Hans van der Laan (1904–1991) developed his body of work on the base of a system of proportions he had … [Read more...]
Ryan Carl, Grid Forms Study 02 (2020)
After Circle Study 07, the second work by designer Ryan Carl that we feature here on Socks is a sequence of geometric operations on grid forms … [Read more...]
Hartmut Böhm’s Sistematic Principles and Magnetic Fields
Hartmut Böhm is a German artist whose work spans four decades and who joined avant-garde artistic movements such as Neue Tendenzen, a German approach … [Read more...]