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Carsten Nicolai / Unidisplay |
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Carsten Nicolai is a German artist, musician and producer born in 1965
in Karl-Marx-Stadt (now known as Chemnitz) in former East Germany. A
leading figure on Berlin’s creative scene in the Nineties, Nicolai is
internationally renowned for his installations and performances, which
explore the connections linking vision, sound, architecture, science and
technology. Thanks to a rigorous approach inspired by the scientific method, the
artist has conducted his research – at once cogent and poetic – on the
mechanisms of representation, and the procedures and limitations of
visual and sound perception. His works involve the physicality of the
spectator and the architectural space for which they are conceived,
bringing into play the very concepts of time and space. unidisplay, an installation measuring about 40 metres in length,
combines the most important elements of Nicolai’s work: the ability to
make sound perceptible on an optical level, minimal aesthetics
translated into the monotone use of colour (variations on black and
white) and acoustics, and the propensity towards abstraction and the
infinite.
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