06/2009 Poesie der Logik
June 19 – September 5, 2009
I think, therefore I am. Descartes logically deduces: Who thinks, must exist.
The only valid proof of our existence – of our lives – is our capacity to think. What an incredible, life-generating universe is hence the human mind? There are no limits to our capacity to ask, to doubt, to recognize.
Defying its own physical limitations and overcsoming everyday life’s gravity, the ZS art KunstRaum invites to a trip into the universe of abstract thinking. A conceptual artist, a sculptor and a musician demonstrate the poetic aspect of logic. From June 18 Harald Plochberger, Walter Angerer-Niketa and Benedikt Jahnel let us see, feel and hear „Poesie der Logik“ (the poetry of logic) in the ZS art KunstRaum.
Intriguing to Harald Plochberger, this Austrian born New Yorker resident and multidisciplinary conceptual artist are the roots of the human communication’s abstract symbolics. Language and scripture as a sign system, as universal code inspire the artist to translate text passages by Sappho and Archilochos into a geometrical code. His mathematically precise geometry add to ancient Greek poetry some kind of utopically virtuous aesthetics.
Walter Angerer-Niketa forces stone and wood into clear cubic form. Thanks to artfully cut diagonals, verticals and horizontals the static material starts moving, swinging. Obedient to the sculptor’s will, to his clear lines and smoothly polished surfaces the rigid and strong material sets free its vibrating energy and tension.
Benedikt Jahnel’s dolby surround sound-installation derives from the mutually inspiring parallels between mathematics and music. Searching for music in mathematics and mathematics in music Jahnel discovers the infinite number Pi. Pi’s tones fall like drops into the room. The sounds of various pianos, layered one over the other, grow and become a four-dimensional symphony in space and time.
Press release >
Artists Biographies >
Portrait Walter Angerer-Niketa >
Portrait Harald Plochberger >
"Meditation" by Walter Angerer-Niketa >
glass objects by Harald Plochberger >
"Pharao" by Walter Angerer-Niketa and "Prim Variation 6a" by Harald Plochberger >