Can any visual poetry open a gateway to the unknown? Can a dimension that otherwise remains inaccessible to our senses be made tangible? And how can a sculpture make visible what is not visible – and show various facets of the perceptible world? 

Starting from questions like these and as a way of exploring uncertainties in art and science, Marsèll presents the installation Transmitter / Receiver by German artist Carsten Nicolai, as part of the Spring Summer 23 collection at Marsèll Paradise in Milan, on view from 15 April 2023 during Milan Art Week. The Marsèll SS23 collection examines light and the delicate colours of the summer horizon.
For this very reason, Marsèll has deliberately chosen to collaborate with an artist whose sensitive research explores the interface between science and art and uses the aesthetic richness of the universe as a primary source of inspiration.

Carsten Nicolai’s (*1965 in Karl-Marx-Stadt) site-specific installation functions as a multi-sensory seismograph, investigating the visual and material properties of the universe. Optical phenomena such as particles, light and colours are of central interest, as is chance.
The work Transmitter / Receiver was originally produced for Haus der Kunst Munich. The sculpture (“the machine”) is controlled by a Geiger counter, a device for measuring radioactivity. The counter detects terrestrial and extra-terrestrial radioactive particles (cosmic noise) and
sends a corresponding electrical pulse to the “machine”, which modulates the pulse. The Geiger counter is mounted directly on the roof of Marsèll Paradise.