Andreas Kaiser

We know much that we can never examine nor follow through. Some things which are obvious to science are noticed by nobody. Knowledge and experience are increasingly separated from one another. In this situation, Art is not the last to wake up to its responsibilities—to bring coherency to meaningful categories and to fix them in poetic images.

Kaiser makes a complex contribution here. Of course, we are just as little able to experience the spinning of the planet today as 500 years ago—though it is current media technology that gives us the possibility to make it perceptible.

Kaiser, an arch-fake Demiurge in miniature, makes the whirling reality of the sphere circling something visible, comprehensible. He lays out on three levels a considered construction of a series of events. He concentrates the inconceivable speed in the few square meters of the museum. He involves us in the symbolic act, inasmuch as he leaves it up to us to bring out its movement. He catches the earth and lifts it out from the distortions of its speed. He confronts us with both the cosmic reality of our whirling world, and the representation of our gravitating empiricism.

Manfred Schneckenburger in: behausung, Bonn 2004