Chromatic Sounds
Powder coating on aluminium, acrylic glass
approx. 6500 x 12000 x 15cm, 2017
Commissioned by Per cent
For St. Raphael’s College, Loughrea, Ireland
Artist Consultant Rina Whyte
The painting is inspired by a 2day workshop with the students and it is composed by two parts: background and reliefs. 100 Reliefs celebrates the 100th anniversary of the school in 2017; they are fixed to the wall in a 90 degrees and present different colours from left and right sides, creating thus new patterns in the composition according to the position of the observer in space. The piece aim is to present how time, space and colour occur as sensational phenomena. They also explore the psychological, emotional, cognitive and material potentialities of colour and space on two and three-dimensional surfaces.
Powder coating on aluminium, acrylic glass
approx. 6500 x 12000 x 15cm, 2017
Commissioned by Per cent
For St. Raphael’s College, Loughrea, Ireland
Artist Consultant Rina Whyte
| Focused on the connections between music and visual arts as tribute to the music scene of Galway which will be European Capital of Culture in 2020, Chromatic Sounds is a three dimensional painting with variable dimensions which will cover parts of the two facades of the sports hall facing the road towards the city center and the new entrance of the school. |
The painting is inspired by a 2day workshop with the students and it is composed by two parts: background and reliefs. 100 Reliefs celebrates the 100th anniversary of the school in 2017; they are fixed to the wall in a 90 degrees and present different colours from left and right sides, creating thus new patterns in the composition according to the position of the observer in space. The piece aim is to present how time, space and colour occur as sensational phenomena. They also explore the psychological, emotional, cognitive and material potentialities of colour and space on two and three-dimensional surfaces.
Chromatic Sounds
Photography by Mark White
