Collabcubed: Clearly, one doesn’t necessarily need Upside Down Goggles or a Psycho Tank à la Carsten Höller to experience a trippy effect through art. Austrian artist Peter Kogler has been playing with spatial illusion since the 1980s.
Friday, November 04, 2011
Peter Kogler: Spatial Illusion
Collabcubed: Clearly, one doesn’t necessarily need Upside Down Goggles or a Psycho Tank à la Carsten Höller to experience a trippy effect through art. Austrian artist Peter Kogler has been playing with spatial illusion since the 1980s.
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These installations are an art form that I absolutely love. Taking the everyday places that we are in and adapting them with these instalations pulls you into spaces. Seeing how art not only can interact with humans but the spaces really changes the way we think about how act can be accessible to us. Large scale installations have always been around and I think that Koglers work are a great way to make them accessible and show them in a new light for us to take in and consider.
This is a great example of how science and art can be merged to create something beautiful. The meticulous calculations that must have gone into designing these pieces (let alone actually creating them!) must be astounding to say the least. This just goes to show how collaboration across seemingly contradictory fields can result in something truly beautiful.
It would be interesting to look at the artists process. These seem to look like they are very math heavy. The idea behind the photometric math and the relationship to the actual space seems to be very complex mathematically. The relationship between math, art and technology is truly interesting to see in practical terms.
I find this type of art truly enlightening. The combination of the right and left sides of the brain- the mathematic and the freely artistic aspects tied together here is a wonderfully exceptional concept. I feel that this art is also so important because it leaves an important commentary to the way we think: the world around us is just a series of images that are processed to give us ideas and inspiration. With this- once we learn how to manipulate spaces, and thus the way we perceive them- we can accomplish anything, and create worlds of perception we have never deemed possible.
These are beautiful illusions that really make you reevaluate where you are and what the space is like. They transform a small room to a large one. They make you think about the difference between your perception and the reality of thing. Are you really seeing something for what it truly is?
MC Escher of the digital age. There's something here for everyone, I think. Art installations have always intrigued me, almost more than scenery in theatre, because that IS the Art. There's no costumes or actors to share focus but only the physical installation itself. So, from a technical standpoint, as someone who may be involved with actually BUILDING or installing or somehow involved with bringing something like this from page to exhibit, something like these pieces, I'm fascinated by art like this and the focus and attention to detail they would require.
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