During the pandemic, all museums closed down but now just NYC but the whole world. The concept of a virtual tour to create a digital experience isn’t new but that’s spread during the pandemic. I decided to take a tour of the National Gallery of Victoria located in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. I wanted to explore the Carnovsky exhibit. https://www.ngv.vic.gov.au/triennial-carnovsky/#LC%EF%BB%BF1
According to the website “Carnovsky is a design/artist duo comprised of Francesco Rugi and Silvia Quintanilla, who began collaborating in 2007. Their RGB (2010) wallpapers explore the notion of ‘surface deepness’, creating wall treatments that mutate and interact with different coloured stimulus. RGB was first presented at Milan Design Week in 2010 and has become an ongoing project for Carnovsky. By experimenting with interaction between printed layers and coloured light projections, the duo explores the idea of surface as a medium and play with our perception of depth, both visually and conceptually, in two dimensions. The interaction of light and colour spectrum create surfaces that mutate and interact with different chromatic stimulus. Carnovsky has exhibited widely at Yoyogi National Stadium, Tokyo; Nuvango Gallery, Toronto and Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum, New York.”
I really like the wallpaper concept, the use of RGB and the concept of animals being endangered, threat level and discussing which species we already lost. I believe his message was very clear and inspiring, he touched a lot more markets besides art.
To be honest this piece made me realize how we take things for granted and ruin life for innocent creatures. In that, the state of modern development we don’t realize there are consequences, the risk that we don’t take into account.
