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executed by various technologies and leaves the objects untouched by Sander
herself.
Figure 7: ‘Corridor’, 1997 (left) and ‘HVAC’, 1999 (right). Craig Kalpakjian
Craig Kalpakjian’s ‘Corridor’ (Figure 7, left) is a digitally rendered looping
animation of the passage through an empty, curving office hallway. ‘HVAC’
(Figure 7, right) is one of a series of cibachrome prints of renderings looking
through a generic heating, ventilation or air-conditioning ducts. Kalpakjian
uses CAD software to produce visualisations of impersonal spaces that reference
corporate architectural interiors. These images are almost indistinguishable
from the visualisations routinely produced by architects and interior designers
to show how an unbuilt space could potentially look. The characteristics that
distinguish these images from their commercial counterparts are the blandness
of the features selected to focus on. These seemingly endless environments are
disturbing in their dirt-free, computer-generated perfection and are devoid of
any evidence of humanity.
Figure 8: ‘Skull’ (Distortion#2 of 4), 2000. Robert Lazzarini
Robert Lazzarini’s ‘Skulls’ (Figure 8) presents four perspectively distorted skulls
that brings Hans Holbein’s anamorphic image of a skull from the painting ‘The
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