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, (Munich, 1974) vive y trabaja en Berlín. Profesor en la Hochschule für Bildende Künste Braunschweig, ha expuesto recientemente su trabajo en exposiciones colectivas en la Bundeskunsthalle, Bonn; MoCA Taipeh; Yokohama Triennale 2011 o The Saatchi Gallery, Londres; o individuales en la Galerie Guido W. Baudach, Berlín;  Hiromi Yoshii, Tokio; Kunstverein Braunschweig.

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