Florian Markus’s Layers 01 explores painting as a collaboration between an artist and a drawing machine. In his account of the project, Markus places the paint while the robot moves the brush, leaving the result dependent on both actions. The work builds through successive interventions rather than a completely predetermined finish.
His wider portfolio includes brush plots alongside work in ceramics, aluminum, and wood. For drawing-machine experiments, Layers offers a reference for considering paint placement, brush movement, and the decisions that remain with the artist while a machine carries out part of the process.
See Markus’s Brush plot 10-series on Instagram, with acrylic moving across a 600 × 800 mm canvas.
Watch: Layers 01
Florian Markus’s own process video, acrylic on canvas, 400 × 500 mm. Video embedded from his official YouTube channel.
