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Davide Boriani
1936 born in Milan
lives and works in Milan
Pantachrome, 1967–76
Various materials
96 x 80 x 30 cm |
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The sheer wealth of materials with unfamiliar designations used in »Pantachrome« by Italian artist Davide Boriani already indicates the complexity of the technology concealed behind the clear geometrical composition on the picture surface: Metacrylate, microlamps, colour filters, turbo ventilator, infrared sensor, time control, as well as wood, aluminium and steel balls. When Boriani developed the idea behind this work in 1967, he was so ahead of the technical developments of his time that it would take almost ten more years before he could fully realize the initial prototype.
The object consists of a grid of 5 x 5 plastic squares that are set in a broad aluminium frame. Each of the 25 modules has its own light source in the three colours red, blue and yellow. The light intensity gradually varies in accordance with a programmed cycle, producing a constantly changing composition made of the three primary colours. As a result, each square can - depending on the degree of saturation and the shade of colour - take on every perceivable hue between black and white. The combination of these individual components allows an enormous number of images to come into being that cannot be taken in visually and thus, even though the work is based on a set programme, amounts as such to random distribution. It takes over four years before the overall image is ever repeated.
In keeping with the tenets of »Gruppo T«, which Boriani joined in 1959, the viewer finds himself or herself confronted by an artwork whose appearance constantly alters, and thus constantly challenges their perceptions and activates them anew. |
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