HENNIX, Catherine Christer. Notes on Toposes & Adjoints. [Stockholm:] Moderna Museet. 1976.
Blue paper folder (301 x 219 mm); pp. 67 unbound photocopied leaves, hole-punched to left margin; spine of folder slightly creased with a little chipping to head, near fine.
First edition, title page inscribed by the author to Jasper Johns.
This is the first published work by the Swedish polymath Christer Hennix, issued in conjunction with her only solo exhibition of visual art, Topos and Adjoints, at Stockholm’s Moderna Museet in 1976. The book explores mathematical concepts of space and relationships around which Hennix (1945-2023), a maths professor as well as an artist and musician, created her visual and musical works. It is central to her artistic output. The exhibition contained black-and-white and colour expressions of her equations, while musically she explored the mathematical relationships within just intonation, a non-Western tuning system in which the interval between each note is a whole number ratio. She had learnt this as a disciple of the raga master Pandi Pran Nath and took it into musical collaborations with La Monte Young and Henry Flynt in a quest to combine logic, altered consciousness and non-Western philosophy.
Worldcat locates only three copies: MoMA, the Getty and Stanford University.
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