Delmes
& Zander, Cologne + Berlin & Galerie Guido W. Baudach, Berlin
present
Sacred
Atomic Systems & Advances in Psychophysics:
Adelhyd
van Bender, Thomas Zipp
Art
Cologne, April 14 – 17, 2016
Hall 11.3 | Booth A 18
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Adelhyd van Bender, "untitled", 1999-2014, mixed media
on paper, 42 x 30 cm. Courtesy of Delmes & Zander.
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Point
of departure for the collaborative project between Delmes &
Zander and Galerie Guido W. Baudach are two publications central to
the oeuvre of both artists featured: Advances
in Psychophysics
by H.G. Geissler and Yu. M. Zabrodin (1976) has been pivotal in
Thomas Zipp's long-term investigations into the scientific fields of
perception, mathematics and the subconscious. Mankind's
Search for God
(1990)
by
the Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society is an elemental piece of
writing at the core of Adelhyd van Bender's work, triggering and
legitimizing his lifetime endeavour of breaking down the world into
mathematical formulae.
Despite
the two distinct formal approaches in the bodies of work or even the
differences in biography, the exhibition Sacred
Atomic Systems & Advances in Psychophysics
underscores the unexpected proximity between Zipp and Bender and
accentuates the lingering presentiment that both artists are somehow
united in the same imperative mission on the crossroads between
science, religion and philosophy. A similarly systematic approach in
the treatment of knowledge, the belief in the methodology of science
and the association between the spiritual and the mechanical lend the
project both a clinical and slightly uncanny note, as if the attempt
of translating the phenomena of everyday life into a logical and
cohesive scientific superstructure has gone somewhat ad absurdum.
Press
contact
Monika
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