For CCS Paris – critical text (sv)
Maskinöversatt — ännu ej granskad.
In the Kabbalah, the pure and infinite divinity is defined as En Soph, symbolized by the letter Aleph — the point that contains the entire universe within itself. He who gazes into Aleph sees the entire universe, everything that exists.
In the short story "Aleph," José Luis Borges describes the feeling one experiences when contemplating the Kabbalists' cosmos — the sensation of seeing everything simultaneously and from all angles. Aleph was a small sphere, sunflower-yellow, with an almost unbearable glow, that hovered in the motionless air above the cellar stairs in a dilapidated house in Buenos Aires.
I don't know if Sivert Lindblom studies the Kabbalah or if he has delved into the mysticism of the alchemists' numbers, but the space he constructs reminds me of Borges' short story.
One expects, after a while, to see an Aleph emerge in a corner — a glowing point that contains all the tensions, all the numerical relationships, and all the secret connections one senses in this space. One gets the feeling of entering some occult observatory, with mysterious and impenetrable instruments where a different order of things is measured.
Solemn monoliths with meticulously calculated proportions create a magnetic force field of numerical and geometric forms that spread throughout the room. One of the forms suddenly materializes on the wall in lead, whose surface area is precisely specified in square millimeters. Is it this composition that plays the invisible locks? Sivert Lindblom has signed the room with his self-portrait — a small statue of a naked man, concentrated and intensely reflective. Like a monk in a Trappist cell, the ascetic spatial structuring is executed with rigor and vibrates with the same intellectual approach. Lindblom introduces cosmic relations into his space and, with precise means, creates the sensation of a monumental universe, as if the walls opened up to the infinite. It is magic in its purest form — a sublime beauty that borders on the sacramental.
Photo: Caroline Andersson, Bonnier
