Albertini’s sculptures and images approach digital phantasmagoria from the opposite path. Instead of beginning as objects, they are birthed (at least in terms of their key parts) as digital designs. His “Braced Bracket,” for example, is listed as a 94-inch work in “mahogany, Plexiglas, PLA plastic and laser-cured epoxy.” We see it as an 8-foot, 2-by-4-shaped mahogany board that nestles through a square, clear plastic window of Plexi. But the wood does not continue through the window. It is two lengths of mahogany joined by about a foot of 3D-printed armature.
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