An industrial robot, KR16, German made and tested in Seville, has started on Thursday with the task of writing the Bible, in careful calligraphy pen and medieval, at the door of the cathedral of Trier (West Germany).
The firm hand of the robot, industrial container underpinned by seven meters long as a showcase, launched what is shaping up as a work of eleven long months, 24 hours a day under the supervision of technical and artistic team formed by Matthias Gommel, Martina and Jan Zappe Haitz.
"It's going to need a mile of paper with a width of 63 inches, and only one liter of ink for such a large committed, "said Gommel, before the start of his experimental writing. Our KR16 robot is a standard, commonly used for automobile assembly, which we have adapted to reproduce the calligraphy itself of the nuns of the convents," said Gommel.
The robot exerted similar biblical roles and Seville in 2008 during the International Biennale of Contemporary Art (BIACS3). Now the idea is to bring that experience to Trier, the cathedral of the oldest dioceses in Germany, where the group presented the project, with approval of the bishop, in 2007.
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The trio of artists made up Gommel, Haitz (both born in 1970) and Zappe (1969), brought together under the project named "Robotlab", has spent years working out in biblical writing robot.
premiere in Trier operation coincides with the opening this Friday the so-called Heilig-Rock-Fest, a festival great year preparing for the procession of Trier, in 2012, which will display the call Seamless Robe or Robe of Jesus Christ.
KR16 The Bible must be finished on April 13, 2012, the day he opens the pilgrimage to Trier. Over the next month is expected to come to the German city a million pilgrims. This is a great event for the Catholic world, after the last pilgrimage of 1959 and 1966 and taking into account also that next year marks 500 of the first exhibition of the tunic.
During the eleven months of preparation, the work of the KR16 can be followed by the visitor who comes to their container, in the cathedral of Trier, to what has been arranged a camera " approach "calligraphy to the public. Once the process of writing, editing it will proceed according to the Bible placed the files in Trier, to leave it exposed as such in the Diocesan Museum in the city, from 2013. - Periódico.
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