Karin Sander (German, born 1957)
ABS plastic (acryl-nitryl-butadien-styrol) from three-dimensional scan; applied color
H. 7 1/16 in. (18 cm), Diam. 2 1/4 in. (5.7 cm)
Purchase, Jennifer and Joseph Duke and Anonymous Gifts, 2000 (2000.411)
© Karin Sander
Olivier Renaud-Clement 1:10, 1999–2000
Karin Sander (German, born 1957)
ABS plastic (acryl-nitryl-butadien-styrol) from three-dimensional scan; applied color
H. 7 1/16 in. (18 cm), Diam. 2 3/16 in. (5.5 cm)
Purchase, Jennifer and Joseph Duke and Anonymous Gifts, 2000 (2000.414)
© Karin Sander
Sander created these Lilliputian figures by first recording her subjects in the round with sixteen digital cameras, then feeding the images into a machine designed for making models and prototypes. From this photographic matrix, the machine sprayed layers of plastic according to the shape of the person at 1:10 scale, which was then painted with an airbrush. The results are uncannily accurate portrayals of individual pose and gesture using the most modern of means—pocket doubles that refer obliquely to a possible future of clones and replicas.
