#June 29 bomb athens iconographer series#
Divided into three parts, The Temptation of the Diagram, Surrender to the Diagram and The Demon in the Diagram, the ongoing project has thus far manifested in a series of paintings, performances, installations, and a publication that examines the influence on notational language on the systems and production of knowledge. Over the last several years, Ritchie also embarked on a project to chart a comprehensive visual history of the notational mark, or diagram. The Morning Line (2008) extends this concept of drawing in space to a vast series of tetrahedral architectural elements, which contain a collaborative interactive music and film database, while This Garden At This Hour (2014) integrates environmentally-scaled sculptures and over 10,000 plants to create a taxonomical and molecular garden. His multi-part installation The Hierarchy Problem (2003) incorporates a black latticework structure, a drawing in space, suspended above a colorful floor piece and flanked by light boxes, paintings and a large wall drawing. A similar combination of media can be found in his most recent permanent work Everything That Rises Must Converge (2017) at Cornell Tech, which rises in a column of information over four floors. In Games of Chance and Skill (2002) a permanent installation commissioned by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Ritchie's works sprawl across three different surfaces habitually employed by the artist: opaque wall, translucent light panel, and transparent windows. Ritchie is also committed to ambitious public art projects that can project complex ideas into shared spaces. The central question of The Main Sequence, whether any one person can see and represent the entire universe, evolved into projects and collaborations in film, theater, music, and architecture, working closely with physicists, musicians, architects, engineers, and theorists to explore the possibility of shared systems and aggregations in contexts as diverse as opera, contemporary music, architecture, horticulture, urban design, theology, and science, as well as frequently bridging the analog and digital worlds with interactive projects at ada-web, Eyebeam, SFMoMA and Rhizome. Each painting in the series developed as part of an interactive game that attempted to summarize an entire field of knowledge, such as physics and biology, into a multi-layered and immersive story.
In 1997, Ritchie began a series of paintings and installations titled The Main Sequence, which aimed to represent visually a theory of everything through a fragmented narrative.
In his paintings, installations, wall drawings, light boxes, sculptures, projections, artists books and performances, Ritchie describes the generation of systems, ideas, and their subsequent interpretations in a kind of cerebral web, concretizing ephemeral and intangible theories of information and time in a unique and recognizable gestural form that emphasizes the human trace. Since the early 1990s, Matthew Ritchie has developed an installation and painting practice drawing from the vocabularies of science, sociology, anthropology, mythology and the history of art.
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