Black Hole (Cygnus X-1) is an installation by the German artist Björn Dahlem curated by Carlota Álvarez Basso for the program Open x Works of Matadero, in Madrid.

 Black holes are astronomical objects or physical models to describe the state of a collapsed star. The matter of a dead star is extremely heavy and dense, which creates a huge gravitational field around it. This means that black holes swallow everything, including light. It seems that black holes are the engines, or gravitational hubs around which the whole of the universe moves.

The installations and sculptures of Björn Dahlem (1974, Munich) reproduce the configuration of parallel dimensions and universes, forces and interactions that illustrate the physicist Edward Witten’s M Theory. Dahlem’s work and its arrangement and presence in space generate threads or membranes of vibrating energy, like a peculiar cosmic symphony. Constructions that are transformed into galaxies built to a human scale.

When.- From 19 September 2014 to 11 January 2015.
Where.- Matadero Madrid. Paseo de la Chopera, 14. 28045 Madrid. spain.

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Björn Dahlem (n. 1974 en Múnich, Alemania) estudió entre 1994 y 2000 en la Academia de Bellas Artes de Düsseldorf. En 2017 fue nombrado profesor en la Universidad Bauhaus de Weimar.

Con sus esculturas e instalaciones, Björn Dahlem da forma a fenómenos cósmicos que escapan a la imaginación. Sin tomarse demasiado en serio los modos de representación y la precisión científica, Dahlem desarrolla estructuras plásticas de gran complejidad a partir de materiales y objetos cotidianos que aluden a teorías y modelos cosmológicos.

Sus obras han formado parte de numerosas exposiciones en instituciones y galerías internacionales, entre ellas la Galería de Arte de la República Federal de Alemania, Bonn (2023), la Trienal de Milán, Milán (2022), el Museo Tadao de la Luz, Fundación Yoshii, Kiyoharu, Japón (2018), el Museo de Arte Moderno de Gyeonggi, Gyeonggi, Corea del Sur (2017), el Museo ArtScience en Marina Bay Sands, Singapur (2017), el Museo de Arte Mori, Tokio (2016), el Mudam Luxemburgo, Luxemburgo (2015), el MoCA Taipei, Taipei (2013), la Galería Saatchi, Londres (2009), el Museo Hirshhorn y Jardín de Esculturas, Washington D.C. (2006), el Museo Hammer, Los Ángeles (2004) y el Hamburger Bahnhof, Nationalgalerie der Gegenwart, Berlín (2003).

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Published on: October 1, 2014
Cite:
metalocus, INÉS LALUETA
"Agujero Negro (Cygnus X-1), by Björn Dahlem" METALOCUS. Accessed
<http://www.metalocus.es/en/news/agujero-negro-cygnus-x-1-bjorn-dahlem> ISSN 1139-6415
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