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This sculpture is the first definitive result of a long term collaboration between Jochem Hendricks and the Neuroscientist Prof. Dr. Rainer Goebel of the Max-Plank-Institute for Brainresearch in Frankfurt/Main. The work's title refers to the authentic 1:1-model of Hendricks' brain. It is made of silicon, and was built as a stereo-lithography at the Frauenhofer Institute of Lasertechnology in Aachen. Possibly for the first time the digital information of a brain, gained by means of a magnetic-resonance-imaging technique has been converted into a stereometry to build an authentic and precise model of a living brain. The artists brain was shown at «attitudes» in Geneva for the first time in 1998. A special tension arises from the fact, that the «object» on display itself, which generated the concepts for the works in the show, itself becomes one the works on display. |