LÁSZLÓ VON DOHNÁNYI

László von Dohnányi plays the role of the machine in producing his works on paper. Beginning with a digital 'finger-painting' Dohnányi translates the most essential mode of mark-making into fluid gestures. Pulled from the screen, these shapes become the organic forms that laze across the works. Using a printer-like process, the artist manually translates these forms line by line onto paper. The process is disrupted by 'malfunctions' in which lines take on a more human curve or pens run out of ink and form varying digital noise. Layering this 'printing' with handmade stencils, the artist creates varied depths that form a 3D space despite the flat nature of the process. Visual noise is pulled to the front of this space, acting as a veil which disrupts the viewer's understanding of the underlying processes. Mimicking the aesthetics of the machine and the visual language of the digital, which are heavily rooted in its analogue predecessors. As the digital landscape is one that we increasingly occupy there's a vague familiarity in the space which the works carve out. Considering ideas of remediation, the artist is interested in how each new form of media takes the aesthetics of the previous and builds upon it; in some works, Dohnányi pulls shapes from security envelopes, which use specific designs to prevent the stealing of sensitive information from the post.