Michalis Pichler's Mallarméan Installations at Kunstverein Milano

At Kunstverein Milano, conceptual artist Michalis Pichler (Berlin, 1980) presents installations that explore the relationship between signifier and signified within language's voids. Central to the exhibition is a progressive magnifying lens installed in a corridor of suspended plexiglass sheets, a disassembled but faithful copy of the 1914 edition of Stéphane Mallarmé's poem "Un coup de dés jamais n'abolira le hasard," with words laser-cut following the original typographic layout. Nearby, a mechanical piano plays the poem through verses-spaces-voids cut by Pichler, titled "Un coup de dés jamais n'abolira le hasard: Musique." The show reflects Pichler's background as a conceptual artist, poet, and editor, bridging visual art and literature through systematic and abstract rewriting of Mallarmé's work.