installation view of carnovsky’s ‘RGB’ exhibition all photos by alvise vivenza
carnovsky: RGB exhibition johanssen gallery, berlin on now until february 10th, 2011
milan-based collective carnovsky (francesco rugi and silvia quintanilla) presents ‘RGB’, an exhibition which showcases a series of wallpapers that mutate and interact with different chromatic stimulus. the wall coverings consist of three different patterns (in red, yellow and blue respectively) that when overlapped, result in a disorientation of images. when colors and patterns mix up, the lines and shapes entwine becoming oneiric and not completely clear. through a filter (a colored light or transparent material) it is possible to see clearly the layers in which the image is composed. each one of the red, green and blue (RGB) filters serve to reveal just one of the three patterns, hiding the other two.
without the RGB filters, the three overlapping patterns create a chaotic mix of images
view of the wallpaper in one corner of the gallery
wallpaper with red filter
wallpaper with green filter
wallpaper with blue filter
another view
imagery exposed with red filter
imagery exposed with green filter
imagery exposed with blue filter
carnovsky RGB cards
carnovsky RGB cards under the red filter
carnovsky RGB cards under the green filter
individual carnovsky RGB prints
exhibition graphics
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more commentsWhen I first read the title and saw the initial three images, I thought similarly, “did they make a mistake and mean to write cmyk?” but after continuing on viewing the images it made sense to me. While cmyk is the color of what is printed on the wall, it seems that the project is titled rgb because of the lights used in each room and that’s what the most intriguing element of this project is.
finally someone asked this question! i really don’t get it, it seems to me like they lost it somewhere in the way, they had in mind RGB which is more popular and easier to spell but CMYK looks better, so they mixed it together, i don’t know..
maravillha!!!!!