Micol Assaël at Kunsthalle Fridericianum, Kassel, Germany, until 21 June

Exhibition Description:

In her first institutional solo exhibition in Germany, Micol Assaël impressively combines strength, power and accomplishment with extreme delicacy and sensitivity. The young Italian artist will present a machine she developed specifically for the Fomuška exhibit face to face with several hundred minimalist drawings.

Micol Assaël's artistic work is characterised by a profound fascination and passion for the laws and principles of physics and mathematics, for technology and industry, for machinery and motors. She works with industrial containers and refrigerated rooms, with power generators and exposed electric circuits - with strong air currents, smoke, steam, water, ice, or lightning.

Assaël, in intense collaboration with the Moscow University of Energetic, has put together for the exhibition a large and enigmatic machine that will electrostatically charge a vast space of the Fridericianum. Bolts of lightning, colourful and zigzagging, will be discharged in large clouds of steam.

The physical perception and senses of the visitors will be overwhelmed and confronted with the immateriality of electricity as well as with its natural and mysterious force. This installation will be set up to contrast with 399 minimalist drawings from the artist's early work, revealing a further insight into the diversity of her artistic means of expression and aesthetic perception.

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Image: Micol Assaël, Electrical diagrams, 2008
installation view at the Biennale of Sydney 2008.
Courtesy: ZERO, Milan.

Full Contact Details:

Kunsthalle Fridericianum
Friedrichsplatz 18
D-34117 Kassel
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