Title: Wolfgang²
Artist: David Fathi
Skinnerboox, 2018
Designed by Ramon Pez
Softcover with dust jacket
15.8 x 23 cm
164 pages
Text by Jeffrey Ladd
Second Edition of 500 copies
ISBN: 9788894895186
David Fathi의 Wolfgang의 첫 에디션이 소량 입고되었습니다. 현재 절판된 책으로 첫 에디션의 경우에는 재입고는 없을 예정입니다.
Using the photographic archives of the CERN laboratory he has manipulated and recontextualized images to tell the strange tale of the Pauli Effect; the myth that Wolfgang Pauli, one of the founders of quantum mechanics, would just by his presence cause unexplainable failures of equipment and experiments.
The photos in this series show accidents, unexpected surprises and the lingering presence of Wolfgang Pauli, who passed away shortly before the beginning of the archive.
Some images are manipulated by the artist, while others are left untouched. Art, photography, history and science collide, blurring science fact and science fiction. The tension and humor arise from the playful games the reader must take part in, to separate myth from reality.
As the physicist Richard Feynman once said : “If you think you understand quantum mechanics, then you don’t understand quantum mechanics.”
- From the publisher’s website
Using the photographic archives of the CERN laboratory he has manipulated and recontextualized images to tell the strange tale of the Pauli Effect; the myth that Wolfgang Pauli, one of the founders of quantum mechanics, would just by his presence cause unexplainable failures of equipment and experiments.
The photos in this series show accidents, unexpected surprises and the lingering presence of Wolfgang Pauli, who passed away shortly before the beginning of the archive.
Some images are manipulated by the artist, while others are left untouched. Art, photography, history and science collide, blurring science fact and science fiction. The tension and humor arise from the playful games the reader must take part in, to separate myth from reality.
As the physicist Richard Feynman once said : “If you think you understand quantum mechanics, then you don’t understand quantum mechanics.”
- From the publisher’s website