Archive for September, 2010

Magnes: Broken Lines

Monday, September 13th, 2010

They dare to describe me with a few broken lines. Where does this courage come from?

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Magnes

Monday, September 13th, 2010

I’m wondering why people seem to relate my name to circles, ovals, elliptic planes. Why is that?

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Magnes: Black Hole

Monday, September 13th, 2010

In Poloni’s work the name “Ettore Majorana” symbolizes a certain affection, a feeling of being threatened by an abyss. An abyss of intrigues, a black hole, of atomic bombs, physics and politics. This black hole reminds me of Van Gogh’s yellow period or of Munch’s mad rotations – so different from the (moving or still) images of Einstein and his ideas in the Einstein Museum/Historisches Museum Bern which is situated only a few meters away from Poloni’s work at the Kunsthalle.

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Magnetologia curiosa, 1690, Tab. 10

Monday, September 13th, 2010

Alencé, Joachim d’: Magnetologia curiosa: Das ist Gründtliche Abhandlung des Magneths [Magnets], in zwey Abtheilungen enthalten; der erste Theil begreifft die Erfahrnuß oder versuchungen, der zweyte aber die Ursachen welche davon kennen gegeben werden. – Mainz: Küchler, 1690. – [4 Bl.], 50 S., 33 Bl.: ill. Taf., Source

Barbara Ellmerer

Friday, September 10th, 2010

Friday, September 10th, 2010

Friday, September 10th, 2010

Magnes: Poloni …

Friday, September 10th, 2010

For a certain time I was a character who helped authors to write about art and science.

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Marco Poloni

Friday, September 10th, 2010

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Magnetologia curiosa, 1690, Tab. 9

Friday, September 10th, 2010

Alencé, Joachim d’: Magnetologia curiosa: Das ist Gründtliche Abhandlung des Magneths [Magnets], in zwey Abtheilungen enthalten; der erste Theil begreifft die Erfahrnuß oder versuchungen, der zweyte aber die Ursachen welche davon kennen gegeben werden. – Mainz: Küchler, 1690. – [4 Bl.], 50 S., 33 Bl.: ill. Taf., Source