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The
exhibition, 'Funken' by Carsten Nicolai takes as its theme, the behaviour
of sparks.
Using the medium of photography, Carsten Nicolai follows the traces and
patterns of light and how these formations split up and spread outwards
through the air. Through this, the viewer is presented with a series of
exploratory images.
Nicolais’s use of photography is at the same time revelatory and
investigative.
Revelatory in the sense that the photographs give visibility to the spark
traces, holding them and stilling their motion for prolonged viewing.
For better observatory purposes, the artist has inverted the tones to
give us a highly graphical image in negative. The yellows of the flames
become blue, the black of the surrounding darkness turns pure white. In
their inverse state, the spark structures begin to remind us of grasses
or floral elements or of intuitive calligraphic drawings.
The photographs investigative processes focus on the random angles made
as the sparks divide in the air and become tree-like in their structure.
In a series of overlaid drawings through which the original photographs
are still visible, Carsten Nicolai examines these random angles with hand
drawn black lines to assess their geometric properties.
With these recent photographs, Carsten Nicolai's interest into the analysis
of mathematical patterns displayed in previous works: 'Milch' and 'Snow
Noise' continues.
'Funken' is a hybrid study of the random behaviour of light and a search
for regularity in nature. NOISE.
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