To a better understanding of life

How can art, next to science, help us to understand better life?


In this booklet from an exhibition at the Appel center there is a call for a behavior, for having curiosity and not trying to understand everything.
Artist David William, for example is showing in this exhibition at the Appel center a game designed to enter the complex idea of the fourth dimension. Not just mathematician and physicist but also artists and writers dealt with the fourth dimension concept in depth. It was the object of fascination between 1870 and 1920. Marcel Duchamp, advocate of the fourth dimension, and the cubists attempted to portray all sides of an object at once, as seen in the fourth dimension. Robert Smithson defined laughter as a fourth dimension and even Lewis Carrol wrote some books that incorporated the idea of the fourth dimension.

I find interesting the idea of the fourth dimension as a logical geometrical transition from the third dimension. But as an artist, "a mathematician is like a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat that isn't there" (attributed to Charles Darwin)