IN-FINITUM

The exhibition In-Finitum, the third part of the trilogy, that began in 2007 with Artempo. Where Time becomes Art and continued with Academia. Qui es-tu? in Paris in 2008, displayed about 300 objects on the 4 levels of Palazzo Fortuny in Venice. The works of art range from archaeological non-finished items over incomplete Old Master paintings to contemporary installations capturing the infinity. Seeking to penetrate the mystery of the infinite—as philosophers, theologians, mathematicians, physicists, poets, writers, and artists have attempted to do throughout history—signifies entering the boundless and labyrinthine territories of the indeterminate, the absolute, the sum total of the incalculable, the indescribable, the immense, the cosmic, the infinitesimal, the transfinite, the extreme, the divine, Nothingness, the void. The Latin term infinitum has been divided by a hyphen into in-finitum to suggest a more complex and problematic interpretation, including “the infinite in the finite,” the indefinite, and the unfinished.

With essays by Giandomenico Romanelli, Francesco Polli, Nico Van Hout, Eddi De Wolf, Heinz-Norbert Jocks, Tatsuro Miki and Axel Vervoordt. Published by Axel Vervoordt in association with Mer Paper Kunsthalle, 2009.