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The exhibition includes plaster cylinders which generate electricity and with which the artist will make various experiments during the exhibition, including a galvanic bath (a glass basin which allows silver pins to grow) and the powering of a fan.
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The reproduction of the battery can be seen in clay in the artist's studio. The battery is a clay vessel found in 1936 during an excavation near Baghdad and may have already served as a battery in ancient Egypt for 2000 years.
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One of these is the work The electric Kiss: inspired by an 18th century experiment in which electric charge was transferred to another body through a kiss.Ī further experimental set-up was inspired by the discovery of the so-called Baghdad battery. The visitors* thus encounter various setups in the exhibition. Each artistic experimental model or arrangement is developed by her to understand the origin of electricity and explore its properties and characteristics. In the experimental set-ups, Anne Büscher demonstrates phenomena that have their origin in static or moving electric charges.
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With the help of simple physical laws, the artist thus creates a trans-disciplinary connection between artistic and scientific research, with specially developed model constructions made of various materials such as glass, plaster, water, tourmaline, elderberry, sulphur and amber. The installation series Demonstration devices for natural electricity, variable dimensions, 2020 thus explores its material side through various natural materials. In a series of experimental set-ups the artist approaches the phenomenon, which has its cause in resting or moving electric charge. with a piece of leather), would exert a force on the body. The name electricity was taken from the Greek word for amber electron. As early in antiquity, it was discovered that amber, when rubbed against it (e.g. It is universal, but is usually not perceived as material. Electricity is a medium that is not visible on its own, but constantly surrounds us. To use energy as a material - means in this case to demand its own laws from electricity and to find an adequate form for its essence from which new possibilities and new paths are constantly being derived. In the exhibition, Anne Büscher deals with the physical properties of electricity in its natural form. By investigating, analysing and documenting natural phenomena from an artistic perspective, new approaches and perspectives are thus created. It is a kind of artistic research which, contrary to the rationality of science, provides the viewer with a different approach to it on a higher level of abstraction with its numbers, data and facts. They act directly on the surroundings of Villa Waldberta and work with the phenomena and materials they encounter during their stay. For both artists the contact to nature is crucial. The artists' studios will also remain visible to visitors from the outside for the duration of the exhibition, allowing them to experience the work and approaches of both artists. The exhibited works are results, interim results and documentations that were created during the residency period and on which the artists will work until the end of their stay. VISIT ONLY BY APPOINTMENT VIA exhibition Practical Magic presents works by guest artists Anne Büscher & Sanne Vaassen from Maastricht in the Palm House of Villa Waldberta.