Tele
By: Carsten Nicolai
Contributors: Berlinische Galerie
Publisher: Distanz
Published: 2018
Place of publication: Berlin
Language: ger; eng
Number of pages: 80
ISBN-13: 9783954762255; 9783940208545
Copyright date: 2018
Subjects: Exhibitions; Multimedia installations (Art); Installations (Art); Light art; Lasers in art; Mirrors in art
Other titles: Carsten Nicolai :
Description: Works by Carsten Nicolai (*1965) oscillate around the interfaces between visual art and electronic sound. He has created the light installation "tele" to fill the first exhibition space in the Berlinische Galerie. It alludes to a peculiar property of quantum entanglement. The phenomenon whereby two quantum systems that are widely separate in space share the same condition was described by Albert Einstein as "spooky action at a distance": the two particles are so interconnected that any change in one has a direct, instantaneous effect on the state of the other, as if there were some telepathic link between them. The installation consists of two mirror sculptures almost three metres high resembling a split Archimedean solid. These too seem to communicate in eerie ways, by means of laser beams.
Notes: Published on the occasion of the exhibition held at Berlinische Galerie Museum für Moderne Kunst, Berlin, Germany, 23 March-3 September 2018.

Includes bibliographical references.

Texts in German and English.