ARS COMBINATORIA or: The 64 Ways of Order

The driving force behind this project is the search for the possibility to relate and understand seemingly different or dissimilar ideas or disciplines by tracing common patterns and analogies. It is the Pythagoreans who were also open to the idea of achieving this goal with „patterns“ as a possible means: a basic concept on which, according to artists and scientists, not only the sciences are based, but human society and, in the broadest sense, life and the whole cosmic order. Patterns and numbers are inextricably linked together. 64 very special magic squares are the foundation of the project. They are used in order to correlate numbers, colors, sounds, the binary system (in form of the I Ching) and the base triplets of the essential amino acids. The long lasting research and combinatorial studies aim to open up dialogues between the realms of science and art, as well as to give a personal artistic interpretation of the aforementioned correlations by means of different forms of presentation.