Magnes: Broken Lines
Monday, September 13th, 2010They dare to describe me with a few broken lines. Where does this courage come from?
They dare to describe me with a few broken lines. Where does this courage come from?
I’m wondering why people seem to relate my name to circles, ovals, elliptic planes. Why is that?
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.
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
For a certain time I was a character who helped authors to write about art and science.
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