"It best reflects the giant scope of this international exhibition," Mr. Gioni said, "the impossibility of capturing the sheer enormity of the art world today".
Her book is in part a meditation on the impossibility of capturing a performance, or series of performances, that happened 80 years ago.
Mr. Gioni said he chose "The Encyclopedic Palace" because it best reflects the giant scope of this international show and what he called "the impossibility of capturing the sheer enormity of the art world today".
Mr. Gioni said he chose "The Encyclopedic Palace" as the theme because it best reflects the giant scope of this international exhibition and what he called "the impossibility of capturing the sheer enormity of the art world today".
Of the more contemporary set, Peggy Johnston's 2011 "Reptalien" reinterprets the natural history book by physically transforming it into a reptilian beast, alluding to the impossibility of capturing an animal's spirit in words.
Using 3D laser scanning and printing, Kahn creates work that demonstrates the "impossibility of ever capturing more than a trace of the past, or of a living, breathing body," even as our imaging technology becomes more accurate.
The impossibility to capture completely the condition of the patient and the selection mechanism which leads to the decision to operate, or not, at any given point in (follow-up) time, renders any multivariate analysis that attempts to make the groups of early and late operations comparable, biased.
This aspect is fundamental, especially given the practical impossibility of constructing networks models capturing all of the biological processes potentially perturbed in a given experiment.
"Slipped Dissolved and Loosed," the lead single, is one of the most beautiful love songs Wagner has ever written, with an opening verse that perfectly captures the impossibility of truly knowing a romantic partner: "Well I'm not so well acquainted with the topography of your mind / I need a detailed description, a representation of some kind".
The sheer impossibility of writing a model that can capture every potential impact of climate change means that modelers decide what to quantify – and what not to.
