Nude Brain / Act of Mind
silver
Silver cast of the life-size brain.
30x24x19.5 cm
Hermetica, the second, larger exhibition, contains 33 works divided into four groups, each of which is presented in a separate room. The title suggests something inaccessible, mysterious but this time refers to the works themselves and not only to their presentation. "Hermetica" seems to be a recapitulation or historic retrospective of the spiritual culture of humanity. It questions religious identity and the foundations of the faith of contemporary man who is entering a new chapter in history; a new era of civilisation which is based on information, technological and scientific.
Glass Tablets and The Wooden Box
armoured glass, graphite dust, wood, steel, aluminium, brass, rope
Two glass tablets, cracked, (28x61.5x3 cm) with text in machine language. Mounted to the wooden shipping box (110x75x58.5 cm) on a folded base (142x106.5x14 cm). The whole piece railed with ropes 160 cm long, suspended on eight brass stands (h.90 cm). H. 129 cm
"Because of the idea of this piece, the content that lies behind the enigmatic record in machine language on glass tablets cannot be disclosed. It can only be said, that this is not a Decalogue, known from the stone tablets. The letters are made of graphite dust. Since they are placed on glass, it is possible to read them from both sides. The size of the box is sufficient to store all elements of the installation"
Why Not Prophesize?
152 sugar cubes, steel cover of a fan, wood, steel pipes and rods, aluminium, bearing, driving belt, electric motor, joystick, electric cable. Cylinder's diameter 72 cm, base 105x52 cm, h.88 cm. Case 63x50x11 cm.
"The device is a kind of a lotto-mat, that combines several rules of different drawing games as dicing, lottery, roulette, etc. It also refers to transcendental systems of cognition based upon interpretation of chances, such as I-Ching or tarot. There is always an element of coincidence or, if you like, destiny in events to which the above systems are appeal.
Prophecy device, in a obvious way, refers also to several well known works by Marcel Duchamp and his interest in sensory perception and, in a broader sense, it also relates to the interest in a sphere of sensualism in art. As a matter of fact, it has to do with a relation between the sensual and transcendental, i.e. between appearance and the essence."
"The manual of prophecy device is as follows. In the cylinder of the lotto machine there are one hundred sugar cubes: three identical sets with thirty three cubes each with various configurations of twenty four pictographic symbols, and one black sugar cube with digit 0. After having deliberately posed a question (that the answer cannot be found in any other way), you start the machine, which draws and ejects successive cubes, that roll on a plane and form a sequence of signs. The lottery is completed when the black cube with 0 is drawn from a cylinder. If this happens in the very beginning of the procedure - the question is automatically cancelled, what means a refusal to answer the question by the prophecy. In addition to one hundred cubes there are fifty two spare unmarked ones in the case."
Sacrificial Table
acid-resistant, stainless steel, plastic boxes, water, rust
Steel table 210x95x90 cm with outlawing channels on table top. Under the table top two plastic boxes filled half way with rusty water.
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