Galactic Scale Inquiries into the Nature of the Cosmos
Galactic Scale Inquiries into the Nature of the Cosmos
Kal Spelletich
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2023. Art Catalog. 8x9. 36 pages. Full Color.
A catalog, documenting the exhibition by the same name, by San Francisco artist Kal Spelletich.
In this body of work, Spelletich responds as an artist to science’s extraordinary, transformative contributions to visual culture and knowledge. Reconstructing scientific tools and experiments with light, stones, sound, metal, video, and machines, his kinetic sculptures and installations explore the sublime dimensions and durations of astronomy, geology, and physics. He highlights their explosion of experience’s everyday parameters, evoking wonder in the face of nature and raising the question of our place in the universe. At a time when the authority of science has been crudely dismissed, and critical thinking has given way to groundless conspiracy theories, Spelletich explores fundamental scientific discoveries and the weight of their hold on the world.
Introduction by Clark Buckner
Essay by Max Blue
Designed by Uma Das O’Toole
About the Artist
Kal Spelletich is an American contemporary artist. A pioneer of San Francisco's machine art scene, he hand builds complex machines and robots. Current work, in 2018, includes building functional artificial robotic organs as a residence of the Stochastic Labs in Berkeley California. Through a collaboration with audience members who volunteer to control or operate his sculptures, Spelletich's work explores the interface of robots and humans.