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November
4 – December 18, 2005
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participating artists:
Jens Brand, Cologne
Kerstin Gottschalk,
Berlin
Peter Heber, Hannover
Karsten Krohn,
Rinteln
Alicja Kwade,
Berlin
Gerhard Mayer,
Nürnberg
Ricarda Mieth,
Berlin
Stefanie Reling,
Stuttgart and Wiesbaden
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accompanying:
lecture series
this sight - physicists
and art
on the three first
sundays of advent at 7 pm
>programme
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The exhibition is the result of a process of
searching and collecting artistic points of
view which suggest a relationship to physics.
Besides a specific explanation by the artists
themselves, a possible related interpretation
of the artists’ works by the organizers
who both have a scientific educational background
(see chapter „organisation“ further
down) was equally a criterion. The visitor of
the exhibition thus has the opportunity to discern
relationships which a purely arts-oriented context
would fail to reveal.
The exhibition and the accompanying lecture
series will focus on the interweaving features
of artistic and scientific work, on this network
of differences, points of intersection and overlapping
areas.
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The
artists and their work: |
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Jens
Brand |
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G-Player 4,
sound- and room-installation
The G-(lobal) Player is a device
which is scanning the surface of the earth
by means of satellite data and is translating
it into audible signals such as a record player
is transforming the different groove levels
of a record into sounds. The sub-heading “Earth
is a disc” therefore is - in a new context
- to be understood literally. Brand is gambling
with scientific techniques and human imagination.
The combination of these two phenomena is
creating a totally new way of perception.
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Kerstin
Gottschalk and Ricarda Mieth
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Ansichten,
interactive roominstallation
The installation „Ansichten”
(Views) is a collaboration. Paintings by Kerstin
Gottschalk in varying intervals come off their
electromagnetic fixture and following gravity
fall down head over heals against the wall
thus generating an impact sound differing
according to the size of the picture. In this
position the pictures, instead of the painting,
disclose the unpainted back and the fixing
techniques - before they are put back into
their original position by the observer. This
work is combining several physical effects
and is shaped like a test structure into which
the observer is supposed to interfere.
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Peter
Heber
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Lost in Space,
wood carves
The small woodcuts from the series
“Lost in Space” are developing endless
spaces under their surface. The motives appear
almost like naturally created structures and
draw the observer’s eyes magically down
to the bottom. They are inspired by the illustrations
in the space atlases which the artist could
again and again thumb through when seeing his
brothers who are both astro-physicists.
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Karsten
Krohn |
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Raumfänger,
objects and drawings
The works of the series „Raumfänger“
(space catchers) are based on the concept of
space itself – an abstract approach which
can be found at the centre of many physical
theories. His portrayal of space by means of
a delicate lined net strongly reminds the attempts
to illustrate bent space time in the General
Theory of Relativity.
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Alicja
Kwade
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Space Zimmer, Lichtgeschwindigket
(video) and series
Meridiane(photography)
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Gerhard
Mayer
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#41, Gravitonentheorie-P,
puzzle collages
The pictures are built up from puzzle pieces
as elementary particles. Seen from a distance,
the pictures become a continuous like the world
that surrounds us. The wavy surface of the collages
relies on the wave-particle-dualism, a quantummechanical
property of all matter.
Gerhard Mayers is fascinated by fundamental
physical theories which are both subject and
inspiration for many of his works.
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Ricarda
Mieth |
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Untitled, 2001 [Passway],
walkable room installation
The „Installation o.T.“ by Ricarda
Meith invites us to carry out a self-experiment:
What will happen when I step onto the magnetic
floor of the passageway with the provided magnetic
shoes? Will I float or be stuck to the ground
or will the experiment create a state of instability?
In this work gravity and magnetism are combined
with human curiosity which is the basis for
scientific research. The passageway which blocks
the sight to our left and right can be viewed
as symbol for the scientific attempt to focus
only on the essential features of a phenomenon.
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Stefanie
Reling
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0°+,
Graphic, Deutschlandreise, Video
The works of Stefanie Reling refer to physical
methods rather than to concrete physical phenomena.
In the graphics series "0°+",
she is playing with the aesthetics of mathematical
formulas.
She also conceived a new video work for the
exhibition concerning the notion of time and
its relativity.
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The exhibition will be accompanied by a small
series of lectures devoted to set out the opposite
point of view: Physicists and art.
All lectures will be held
in german.
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Programme |
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11/27/2005, 7 pm
Günter Lergon, former member of tie Institute
of Experimental Physics, University of Essen
"Auf Spurensuche nach
physikalischen Ideen in der bildenden Kunst"
[Search for evidence
of physical ideas in visual art]
12/4/2005, 7 pm
Joachim Krug, Prof. for Theoretical Physics,
University of Cologne
"Ein Auge welches sieht,
das andre welches fühlt" - Über
die Sichtbarmachung des Unsichtbaren
[... - Making visible
the invisible]
12/11/2005, 7 pm
Ernst Peter Fischer, Prof. for History of Science,
University of Konstanz
"Wissenschaft ohne
Kunst ist unmenschlich, Kunst ohne Wissenschaft
ist lächerlich."
[Science without art
is inhuman, art without science is absurd]
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Photos
©:
the artists
| Reinhild
Kuhn (opening)
Concept:
Rona
Rangsch Organization:
Rona Rangsch|
Ulrich Weber
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