- Hans Hofmann
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Until February 10th, 2011, the Johanssen gallery in Berlin, Germany will have on display "RGB," an experiment with color by Carnovsky. Carnovsky is a Milan-based collective created by Francesco Rugi and Silvia Quintanilla.
"RGB" takes the powers of color to a very literal level. By scraping illustrations down to the three primary additive colors of light, red, green and blue, a wall of seemingly jumbled lines and shapes can give off the illusion of transformation.
The original wall seems to be a random array of animals plastered one on top of another, forming a sort of visual discord that is almost painful to look at. However, under differently filtered lights, this mess of color morphs into various arrangements of animals that are rather eerie in all of their monochrome glory.
The reason why this illusion works is due to the blending of colors and how, when the right wavelengths of color come together, they can seem to disappear into one another. Color is a very relative concept. Because light is additive into white, rather than forming big blobs of murky darkness, the distinctive outlines of each animal is instead more pronounced against a "white" background.
They say that it is color that determines form, not the other way around. This is a prime example of that, as all of the figures are simply made from different shades of one hue: either red, blue, or green. Despite the lack of black outlines, they can still be clearly seen and distinguished from one another.
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Source: http://www.designboom.com/weblog/cat/8/view/12317/carnovsky-rgb-exhibition-at-johanssen-gallery.html
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