This light art installation at the Targetti stand was one of the highlights of Light+Building in Frankfurt this March. From Stockholm-based visual artist Aleksandra Stratimirovic and Athens, Greece–based lighting designer Athanassios Danilof, in collaboration with Targetti Sankey, “Color Wheels” was “created as a perceptual instrument to investigate the experience of color and light through temporal luminous color arrangements,” according to the designers. The artwork is displayed in triptych form. Each section consists of six circles that are engaged in a concentric layout. The color sequence is generated using LED light strips. As the duo explains in the installation’s accompanying statement, the viewer is engaged in a “visual experience [that] is stimulated by successive brightness, hue and saturation hierarchies of reflected light on each circle. The perceptual process is enabled in an attempt to investigate color harmonies and analogies as well as complementary, simultaneous and sequential color contrasts and chromatic afterimages. Visual constancy is challenged.”
