Carsten Nicolai
anti
2004
‘anti’ is a regular geometric form which represents systematic thinking and the interrelationship between mathematics, optics, art and philosophy. in appearance, it is a distorted cube, truncated at the top and bottom to obtain rhombic and triangular faces. the object reacts to the magnetic fields of bodies, enabling interaction with the visitor, while all of its mechanisms are hidden within. derived from artist albrecht dürers engraving ‘melancholia i’ (1514), ‘anti’s’ black, light-absorbent surface and monolith-like crystalline shape confronts the viewer, trying both to mask its form and to disguise its function, thereby absorbing information.
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PP lightweight structure, sound module, theremin module, transducer, amplifier, light-absorbent black paint
300×255×255cm
Installation view: Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt/Main, 2005
Photo: Uwe Walter
