Mathematical problems are the source of inspiration for Paul Brand's art. In this exhibition Brand will show drawings and sculptures in two rooms. There are 35 possibilities to assemble 6 squares into a shape, but only 11 of these have a shape that can be folded into a cube. The exhibition shows, among other things, 11 drawings where each of them is missing one of the 11 shapes that form a cube. These are on the floor as copper cubes on 11 square shapes in aluminum and form a relation to the missing shapes in the 11 drawings.
Brand's fascination with magic squares is shown in a steel floor sculpture consisting of nine heptagons which are assembled into a square with numbers from 1-9.
Paul Brand was born in 1941 in Switzerland and is educated at The Kunstfachschule in Biel in Switzerland, The Instituto Svizzero di Roma in Italy and The Academy of Fine Arts in Oslo. He has been a professor at Statens Kunstakademi and NTNU in Trondheim. He has exhibited in well-reputed galleries in Norway, Germany and Switzerland and is represented in the collections of The National Museum, as well as private collections at home and abroad.
