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Group of sculptures as one sculpture.
Big and smaller round glass support the steel structures
The sculpture contains:
% of dimensionless quantity, % of confidence interval, % of random error, % of measurement uncertainty.
I call them ‘ingredients’ which create an index of calibrated parameters to diagnose a shape.
unprotected 0 fig.2°
sculpture 2015
powder coated steel glass 240 x 320 x 142 cm
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collage 2015
print on paper, steel 21 x 29,7 cm
© Marlena Kudlicka
photo: Marcus Schneider Courtesy: Private Collection
"According to Kudlicka, Zero is still unprotected, because it is a potential from which a shape can arise. Thus, it exists - as potentiality - although in fact there is nothing - zero. Similarly, the dot, the smallest quantity in printing - is at the same time an indivisible point, an entity analogous to an infinite straight line, which curves in infinity.
The "unprotected zero" is the beginning of signifying a sense, which, however, does not exist until a sign is formed. It is, as Derrida wrote, that the beginning exists only in the past tense, but not in the present tense.
Fragment from Dorota Monkiewicz essay “A sculpture that is caused by language and writing. About Marlena Kudlicka’s work”
