Hartmut Bohme A Journey into the Body and Beyond. |
| "Identified Plastic Object": Exposition |
| It's quite simple: a garish, red pipe, six meters in length, connects two jutting, snow-covered cliff peaks at the summit of the Tatra Mountains. Everything here is (still) nature - with the exception of this single object. Art is a manifestation of physics, commented Alicja Zebrowska on her installation "Identified Plastic Object" in the Strazyska-Valley of the Tatra at the turn of the year (1992/1993). Continuing in this vein, we can extrapolate: Art is a materialisation, an intelligent manifestation of the physis. Alicja Zebrowska reminds us, that, according to the cosmic Big Bang model, matter came into being perhaps ten seconds after the original explosion. Everything in existence is a configuration and metamorphosis of matter. Even the thinking mind, which creatively and productively acts upon matter, is a modification of this same substance. In Stanley Kubrick's film "2001 A Space Odessey", an absolutely regular, black cube towers up suddenly and without warning over a prehistoric human horde. This same cube is later discovered by space travellers on an unknown planet, but even then, in the farthest technological future, it retains its mystery. Like Alicja Zebrowska's pipe, the cube is the epiphany of a substance, which is material, but which also displays its artificiality. It is the birth of intelligence. Art is physical labour, labour on the physis. |