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In his artistic practices, Toby Ziegler is interested in the relation between an object, its image and the space in which it exists. The (digital) circulation of images, and in particular the reproduction of artworks, as well as the loss of information that can occur during their successive transmissions and transformations, is a subject at the heart of his work.

Ziegler's sculptures are results of a process that constantly switches between manual and digital techniques. Starting from a model of clay coils that describes the later form of the sculpture, the figure is 3D scanned and reworked in the computer before being 3D printed in plastic on a larger scale. The areas where the printer fails indicate traces of the artist's hand that formed the original model. Finally, a mould is taken from the print and a cast made in aluminium. As previous works by Ziegler, Slave, the sculpture presented in Weidingen, derives from an existing image source, in this case referring to Michelangelo's Dying Slave as well as Henri Matisse's Madeleine.