Tomas Schmit
Die Heisenbergsche Unschärferelation

1971

EB20

Wood and stretched wire in drawer
20 x 36,5 x 2 cm

Edition of 30, signed

available with the edition "En Bloc"

Multiple by Tomas Schmit. A string is stretched at a right angle on a chipboard panel, with a movable wooden stick stretched between them. Arrows are painted along the string. On the front edge of the board is written: THE HEISENBERG'S UNSCHÄRFEREALTION (approaching a thing in one way leads to distance from the thing in another)

For En Bloc (EB20), Tomas Schmit visualizes Die Heisenbergsche Unschärferelation (Heisenberg’s uncertainty principle) in his typically humorous way. A wooden rod is suspended from a wire stretched across three eyelets on wood in the shape of an open triangle so that Schmit’s interpretation of the eponymous statement of quantum physics can be demonstrated by means of this movable construction. In addition to the drawn arrows used for illustration, a strip of paper with the artist’s signature, the typewritten title and Schmit’s explanation of the phenomenon is attached to the front edge of the wooden board: “annaeherung an ein ding in der einen fuehrt zu entfernung vom ding in der anderen hinsicht” (approach to a object in one direction leads to distance from the object in another direction).
Text: Katrin Seemann

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