Talking Points: Carnovsky
How can changing an element of our environment make what we see or feel seem different?
Artist duo Carnovsky manipulate light within the environment to change the appearance of flat images. As the light changes, different drawings are revealed, unveiling previously unseen images and allowing a sense of narrative to emerge. New forms appear and then disappear, creating a sense of depth on a 2D surface.
Watch the videos below and use the following questions to begin a discussion about Carnovsky’s RGB project.
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Carnovsky
Carnovsky is a Milan-based art and design duo comprised of Francesco Rugi and Silvia Quintanilla.
RGB is a work about the exploration of the “surface’s deepness”.
RGB designs create surfaces that mutate and interact with different chromatic stimulus.
Carnovsky’s RGB is an ongoing project that experiments with the interaction between printed and light colours. The resulting images are unexpected and disorienting. Colors mix, lines and shapes entwine and not completely clear. Through a coloured filter (a light or a transparent material) it is possible to see clearly the layers in which the image is composed. The filter’s colours are red, green and blue, each one of them serves to reveal one of the three layers. Carnovsky
Questions to Ask Children
Describe what you see.
How does it make you feel when you see the image change before your eyes?
How would it feel to be in that space, interacting with the sculpture?
What do you think the artists are trying to do through the artwork?
Why do you think that light has an effect of specific colours?
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