FOSSILART 2008 |
FOSSILART 2008 |
| In 1992 Dr.
Seilacher received the highly estimated Crafoord price from the Royal
Swedish Academy of Science for his work with traces of early life.
Since the 1960's Dr.Seilacher had been known as thee expert of
ichnology (study of traces9 due to his classifications of traces which
became a useful tool for geologists and the oil industry
particularly. Associating traces with palaeo environments was
particularly useful for the interpretation of sedimentary sequences,
but also the stratigraphic applications were valuable. A wealth of
details about ancient life was revealed by Seilachers minute and
thorough descriptions and interpretations as shown in the catalogue
following the exhibition and in some of the descriptions on this web
page.. The Crafoord price made it possible for Dr.Seilacher to fulfill his dream of bringing these traces and stories out to a larger audience by establishing a travelling exhibition of the most extrordinary examples. It started out with four small panels showing indirect evidence of life in the form of impossible sedimentary structures which indicated the former presence of algae mats more than a billion years old. Continuously adding new spectacular traces to the collection has expanded the exhibition to its present size now comprizing approximately 40 casts. The exhibition has travelled from USA to Tokyo to Brasil and Portugal and is presently on show in the Nordic countries. And Dr.A.Seilacher and his team are still travelling to the most remote places of the world if needed to have another cast made of an impressive trace of ancient life. The original traces stay in nature while the negative casts are brought back to Tübingen University where the final positive cast is made in Hans Lüginslands workshop. |
I first met Dr.Seilacher in Geneve international airport in 1995 on my way to a geology conference in North Africa. I shook hand with a man who presented himself as "Seilacher". I asked him whether he should know the famous ichnologist Dr. A.Seilacher ? - "There is only one Seilacher" was the answer. But he, if any, has certainly no reason to hide his light under a bushel. |
| "Fossil Art" is the result of
Dr.Seilachers lifelong research in traces of life from the last 2 000
000 000 years. The exhibition shows the first traces of uni celled organisms' influence on sediments, examples from the mysterious era "Ediacara" which existed after a complete freezing of the earth to one big snowball, before the Cambrian explosion 540 mill years ago when all present life was created during a geologically astonishing short moment, the first traces on land, dinosauer footprints and many more impressive traces. |
The exhibition was
shown
in Denmark in 2006. It was brought to the Nordic countries by Claus
Beyer who met Dr.Seilacher for the first time on a field trip in
southern Libya in 1995. At a later conference in Tripoli it was agreed
to get the exhibition to Scandinavia where it was shown the next
couple of years before it continued to eastern Europe and later western
Europe before hopefully going to Australia and New Zealand in
connection with the 34th world geological congress in 2012. Meeting in Tripoli 2000.
|
Stavanger
from 1.maj until 1.juli
Krakow
1st of September until 1st of October
Gram, Danmark
 Claus Beyer ,Geologist, cand
scient.
from Århus Universitet 1987 |
For further information about Fossil-Art, please,
contact: Fossil-art@mail.dk Fossil-art@online.no |
| Comments
and criticism to this adress, please, write to:
CB-Magneto@mail.dk
|
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Sponsor
for the book is Wacker Chemie
| FOSSIL ART as ART | OR |
FOSSIL ART as SCIENCE |