Johannes Girardoni: Color and light at MOAH
"Colorimetry"
MOAH Welcomes the New Year with Six New Dazzling Exhibits Featuring Color and Light
January 18 - March 16, 2014
MOAH
Lancaster Museum of Art and History
665 Lancaster Blvd.
Lancaster, CA 93534
In celebration of the New Year, the Lancaster Museum of Art and History (MOAH) presents Colorimetry, a vibrant series of six dazzling contemporary art exhibits featuring color and light. The term colorimetry refers to the branch of color science and technology used to measure, quantify and describe the human perception of color. But just as geology is more than the science and study of rocks, colorimetry is more than just the science of color. There is a uniquely human element to colorimetry, as the science of how only we, as humans, perceive color. Author and design expert Peter Vukovic of 99 Designs notes, "Color is created when our brain tries to make sense from light signals it receives from the outer world. In other words, it’s all in your head. Without that, our world is a monochromatic place bathing in electromagnetic radiation of varied intensity and wavelengths. Nothing fun about that, unless you’re into physics." MOAH’s Colorimetry artists, including Ruth Pastine, Gisela Colon, John Eden, Johannes Girardoni, Dion Johnson, Karl Benjamin and Phillip K. Smith III, explore the sensory power of color and light perception in their purest forms, using uniquely diverse materials and methods to trigger this unique human capability.
... Using LED lights contained in linear sculptures rather than oil on canvas, Johannes Girardoni expands the second floor East Gallery with his blue/green light experiment called "Chromosonic Field", which includes a device known as a Spectro-sonic Refrequencer which converts light into sound. [He is] internationally renowned for [his] vigorous experiments with light and color and is not to be missed!