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Kerim Seiler

Floccinaucinihilipilification

April 28 – July 7, 2012

SEILER 2012 Berlin GCP 1

Kerim Seiler

Floccinaucinihilipilification

April 28 – July 7, 2012

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Press Release English Pressetext Deutsch

Opening hours:
Friday 14h00 – 18h00
Saturday 11h00 – 18h00
and by prior arrangement

 

There is no need for floccinaucinihilipilification.—Zheng

The fourth dimension is an undefined realm in which objects are located by four coordinates: north/south, east/west, up/down, ana/kata. There are many different views of the fourth dimension. One of them is that the fourth coordinate (ana/kata) is whatever it needs to be to solve whatever needs solving. 

Rarely does a female statue spring to life in order to take revenge. But when the statue is a man, its purpose is almost always to do or to avenge a wrong. An unrelated view is that the fourth dimension is an anagram of the first three: 

When we consider what is appropriate in the behavior of wooden statuettes which together resemble an alphabet, when we spell with them, omitting vowels and certain consonants, and mentally inscribe words and then deploy those words into word strings that fall just shy of forming sentences, we are tempted to collapse onto a couch, from which a large-eyed rabbit might be glimpsed on the veranda. The rabbit, grazing in dust, might have grey hair and be snapping shells open with its teeth, releasing nuts.—Ludwig Schläfli

Supposing a fourth dimensional being were to transform you into a mirror image. It would only have to rotate you ana to kata. With the alphabet lettering paradigm in mind, Kerim Seiler has fashioned a non-alphabet system that revolves around a letter that cannot be deployed in words, its existence merely inferred by other letters. It may fluidly receive or reject ornament, be layered or cloaked, snap open and release, or serve as a crouching mechanism. He has not conferred the letter to a vocabulary, and the unscrupulous observer might deem it an ideal form to pocket.

Warping the coordinates ana and kata, a fourth dimensional being can see the inside of things presumed enclosed, and may spring loose contents without first opening their container (e.g., imbibe wine from a sealed bottle). One may commit the perfect crime in the three dimensional world by using ana and kata to resolve boundaries and liberate an item.

Ligatures express noise, soften the harshness of meaning, extend it, guard it from detection. Seiler recognizes the wooden letter as a cloaking agent. He does not busy himself with the problem of which ligatures, present or absent, might be perceived as nonsense and eventually obtain meaning.

Supposing the four dimensions were leveled off as colors. Obviously an animal from one dimension would recognize his or her specific color but not others. Moreover, s/he would not sense the existence of animals from other dimensions.

—David Woodard

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Kerim Seiler,Installation view

Installation view

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Kerim Seiler,Installation view

Installation view

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Kerim Seiler,Installation view

Installation view

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Kerim Seiler,Installation view

Installation view

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Kerim Seiler,<em>Floccinaucinihilipilification</em>, 2012<br />Neon, cable, transformer<br />68 x 60 x 7.8 cm

Kerim Seiler
Floccinaucinihilipilification, 2012
Neon, cable, transformer
68 x 60 x 7.8 cm

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Kerim Seiler,<em>Ego Sum</em>, 2012<br />Neon, steel, cable, transformer<br />Ed. 2/3 + 1 AP<br />203 x 219 x 11 cm

Kerim Seiler
Ego Sum, 2012
Neon, steel, cable, transformer
Ed. 2/3 + 1 AP
203 x 219 x 11 cm

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Kerim Seiler,<em>Untitled (Labyrinth)</em>, 2010<br />600 x 600 cm

Kerim Seiler
Untitled (Labyrinth), 2010
600 x 600 cm

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Kerim Seiler,<em>La Linge</em>, 2011<br />Cotton fabric<br />Dimensions variable

Kerim Seiler
La Linge, 2011
Cotton fabric
Dimensions variable

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Kerim Seiler,<em>Spectral fox</em>, 2011<br />Aluminium, hand-painted<br />22 x 35 x 38 cm

Kerim Seiler
Spectral fox, 2011
Aluminium, hand-painted
22 x 35 x 38 cm

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Kerim Seiler,<em>Malen nach Zahlen (Winter)</em>, 2012<br />Wall paper<br />Dimensions variable

Kerim Seiler
Malen nach Zahlen (Winter), 2012
Wall paper
Dimensions variable

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Kerim Seiler,<em>Rod (Gold/luminophore argon)</em>, 2012<br />Wood, glass, cable, transformer<br />Ed. 1/3 + 1 EP<br />232 x ø 5 cm

Kerim Seiler
Rod (Gold/luminophore argon), 2012
Wood, glass, cable, transformer
Ed. 1/3 + 1 EP
232 x ø 5 cm

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Kerim Seiler,<em>Rod (Turquoise/luminophore argon)</em>, 2012<br />Wood, neon, cable, transfomer<br />Ed. 1/3 + 1 EP<br />231 x ø 5 cm

Kerim Seiler
Rod (Turquoise/luminophore argon), 2012
Wood, neon, cable, transfomer
Ed. 1/3 + 1 EP
231 x ø 5 cm

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Kerim Seiler,<em>Cravan</em>, 2011<br />C-print<br />Ed. 1/3 + 1 HC<br />141 x 100 cm

Kerim Seiler
Cravan, 2011
C-print
Ed. 1/3 + 1 HC
141 x 100 cm

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