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i king 64 works in progress acrylic on canvas min 50 x 70 h, max 100 x 150 h Sant'Albano Stura, 2012-2020 |
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I KING (I CHING) is the ancient Chinese Book of Changes, used as oracle from over two millennia. It deals with a dynamic representation of the reality in which true knowledge emerges, more than from situations in themselves, from the laws that govern their constant transformation. Different circumstances are represented by 64 hexagrams, that are all combinations of 6 lines, either whole (the masculine principle, Yang) or broken (the female principle, Yin). If we consider the broken line as 0 and that whole one as 1, it anticipates the binary numeration commonly used today by computers, as well as the principles of Combinatorics: 2 possibilities (whole or broken) power of the number of lines corresponds to the number of combinations, 2^6 = 64 hexagrams. It finally constituted a key contribution to modern psychology (particular in Jungian psychology), in defining the concept of synchronicity. |
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