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 ECHOES OF VOYNICH at Wonzimer Gallery Los Angeles​

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Sept 13 - October 23, 2024​

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2024 drawings and a painting intersect math, music, cinema and science, group  show "Echoes of Voynich: Coded Systems in Contemporary Art," Wonzimer Gallery, Los Angeles, through 18 October 2024. Presented by Getty PST ART: Art & Science Collide.  Titled in honor of the 100th anniversary of the silent film classic, Aleta Queen of Mars (1924).

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"The  Voynich is a mysterious codex from around the year 1410 by an unknown author—possibly an Italian, possibly a woman,—whose text is written in a script that no one in the past 600 years (including linguists and A.I. bots) has been able to decipher. ..The works in the gallery were selected because Begleiter saw in them “echoes” of the Voynich manuscript, which has drawn a consistent and growing audience in the six centuries since its creation. One aspect of the echo is the magnetic power of the code in the withholding of its contents. The other is that of the artist inventing scientific systems on the fly to resolve and articulate its mysterious ideas...Christina McPhee says her drawings are “made as a site for figuring out the incommensurate and infinitely parsed movements in vision.” I’ve no doubt that she knows what this means, but it doesn’t give away how she arrives at her delicate, intelligent skeins of line, algebraic figures and shaped textures, nor clarify what appears to be the mapping of a mass of green organic matter onto a tangle of blood-red smoke. Those are the secrets of her practice, amping up the intrigue of her method." - Lane Barden, Artillery Magazine 

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Below: installation photographs by curator Marcie Begleiter

 Echoes of Voynich, Wonzimer

13 September to 18 October 2024

​Artists: Marcie Begleiter, Timothy C. Ely, Julie Harrison, Christina McPhee, Blue McRight,

Snezana Saraswati Petrovic, Fran Siegel, and Linnea Spransy

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