Here the boldly colored backgrounds and mystical calligraphy surrounding his
menagerie of animal - headed people and personified rag dolls in the works seen at the 2000 Whitney Biennial were replaced with muted color fields lightly penciled with patterns suggestive of DNA helices and chemical or
mechanical diagrams.
An experimenter in the
mechanical production of sound, Gauthier assembled a delightful
menagerie of ragtag robots that, struggling to move their parts, did nothing but wheeze, whistle, roar, and squeak.