TIMO NASSERI – NINE FIRMAMENTS
2015-09-07In Timo Nasseri’s current exhibition “Nine Firmaments” he concerns himself with the topic of notation and readability. He examines the difficulties of transcription and the loss of knowledge through notation and its transferal back into the three-dimensional space.
Nasseri’s drawing “Nine Firmaments”, which lends the show its title, as well as “Orbis Tertius” make use of illustrative elements that appear familiar to the observer. Graphic, geometric symbols, digits and letters from the fields of mathematics, cartography and astronomy are placed in a complex, yet purely intuitive, indecipherable correlation. The words, numbers and forms bear associative significance for the observer, seem to be references, but no clear sense can be made of them, despite the fact that these notations originally serve to designate and preserve information and knowledge and make them accessible. Nasseri questions the vocabulary of characters that visually has become so commonplace to us by creating his own fantastical worlds of characters, captivating in their minuteness and precision, but also puzzling to the observer.
Opposite – “Pion”, 2015
Exhibition runs through to October 31st, 2015
SCHLEICHER/LANGE
Markgrafenstraße 68
10969 Berlin
Germany
