«Die Quadratur des Kreises» is an artwork installed by the collaborative artist collective Troika on Raiffeisenplatz - the campus of R+V in Wiesbaden. The project was accompanied by Häusler Contemporary and is freely accessible.
The sculpture, entitled «Die Quadratur des Kreises», continues a long series of works, which includes «Dark Matter» (2014), «Polar Spectrum» (2015) and «Everything is and isn't at the same time» (2015). The sculpture explores in a spatial format the possible reconciliation of opposites, pointing towards a synthetic ontology which transcends our dualistic understanding the world around us.
Inspired by Edwin Abbott’s satirical novel «Flatland» where the inhabitants of a two-dimensional world cannot recognise a three-dimensional object, these works are a mutation of different forms which are perceived in correlation to the position of the observer.
Towering 4m in height, the sculpture, constructed from painted stainless steel, acts as a gateway in the surrounding public square. It simultaneously displays the form of a square and a circle from two specific point of view. It is both resolutely simple and intriguingly complex. Confronted with the sculpture, viewers have their logical and visual sensibilities challenged, pointing towards a possible unity of seemingly antithetical forms, a the possible limits of understanding reality.