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28/9/2011

T.O.E. Theory of Everything

Centre d'Art Bastille - CAB, Grenoble

Artists
Yves Netzhammer
Michel François
Franka Hörnschemeyer
Bruno di Bello
Conrad Shawcross
Rafaël Rozendaal
Attila Csörgo
Angelo Sarleti
Matthew Day Jackson
Tomas Saraceno
Luca Pozzi

Physicists
Abhay Ashtekar
Roger Penrose
Carlo Rovelli
Raymond Aschheim

T.O.E. Theory of Everything is an exhibition curated by the artist Luca Pozzi for the CAB Bastille Art Center (Grenoble, FR) in relationship to the Art / Science Biennale organized by the Hexagon, Meylan National scene.

This project originated from an invitation by the curator Vincent Verlé to Luca Pozzi asking him to develop a curatorial proposal based on his own artistic research to further investigate the artist's approach and his inclusion in a given cultural environment.

Taking place at a time particularly sensitive to issues such as sustainable development and renewable energy, the exhibition's purpose goes towards unexplored territories, those in which energy manifests itself fully, where questioning the protection of resources is replaced by that of its genesis and its "harmonious" combinations.

Luca Pozzi has therefore decided to study the birth of energy, to trace its origin, without prejudice. To do so, he studied various conjectures of physics such as the string theory, the twistor theory and the various formalisms of quantum gravity. He assembled them to create a set free of mathematical contradictions, a visual experiment causing to imagine, on a macroscopic scale, vacuum energy.

He sought to understand and visualize this oxymoron, combining resources in art and science, the dynamics that have led to the mother of all creations. He investigated a reality in which the concepts of the infinitesimal and the infinitely great co-exist. A reality where even the best scientific theories such as general relativity and quantum mechanics colapse because they are no longer able to deliver final results to their equations, which consequently become conjectures producing hypotheses instead of rules.

Science is an art and art is a science, the concept of beauty and elegance persists in both languages, with very similar meanings. Both a scientific conjecture or an artwork is beautiful when it is simple yet with impact, when with an extreme economy of means, a formal and conceptual revolution takes place that permits a transcendance to the world as we know it. Both the quality of an artwork and a scientific theory is directly proportional to the amount of information it contains (Q = K J where Q stands for the quality, J for the information and K the proportionality constant ).

T.O.E (Theory of everything), in theoretical physics as in the exhibition, has as main objective to lay down the foundations for a concrete vision of revolutionary perspectives mentioned by the most important scientists of our times such as : Abhay Ashtekar, Lee Smolin, Edward Witten, Carlo Rovelli, Leonard Susskind, Roger Penrose, Stephen Hawking, Alain Connes and their teams. The artworks in the exhibition have been selected based on their ability to visualize the ephemeral bridges between words, languages, and between different formalismo in order to bring forward an unified reality.

Press contact:
Vincent Verlé tel: +33 (0)6 79765821 e-mail: vincent.verle@cab-grenoble.net

Centre D’Art Bastille
site sommital de la Bastille - Fort de la Bastille, Grenoble
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