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The Money Supply
- Artist
- Blair Robins
- Price
- $60.00
- Date
- 2008
- Publisher
- self published
- Format
- Catalogues
- Details
- Hardcover
- Size
- 23.9 × 33.3 × 0.8 cm
- Length
- 9
The “Money Supply” is a project by Toronto artist and graphic designer Blair Robins which addresses the universal equivalent and token of the absolute: $. It consists of digital prints and copper engravings, created with the assistance of computer software intended for bank note production.
The collective belief in the value of paper money depends on the alliance of authenticity and perfected technical reproducibility. The convergence of art, commerce, and industry is the conceptual point of departure for the project. Patterns in the work trace iterations of the figure 8, recalling a long tradition of guilloche engraving used as ornament and security guarantee on the earliest letterpress bank notes. The software has devised algorithms based on copper-engraved guillochure; in this way the technique returns as a purely mathematical proposition, and a re-statement of the modernist ideal of machine drawing.
Catalogue essay by Frances Robertson. Includes fold-out colour plate.
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