Ludwig Hirschfeld-Mack: Colored light plays
To celebrate the centenary of Bauhaus (1919–2019), Museion made a show of a Bauhaus artist Ludwig Hirschfeld-Mack (1893–1965). He developed a Light-playing apparatus in 1923/24, one of the earliest works of art with moving electric light. Light plays bridge the fields of painting, film, theater and light sculpture. For the first time, they set in motion forms and colors that are static in painting, using projections of colored light. Most of Hirschfeld-Macks light plays were accompanied by music.
The concept of the exhibition project starts from the complex scores that were intended to direct the movements of the lights and shapes that created the forms. The room chosen to house the documentation is the space that Museion usually uses to exhibit its archive of artist's books. The shelving of the bookcase was therefore a constraint. However, by studying the artist's archive and the specific scores, it was easy to create an analogy between the rhythm of the shelves and the panels chosen and designed to accommodate the textual and visual content.
2019
Title:
Ludwig Hirschfeld-Mack.
Farbenlichtspiele / Spettacoli di luce colorata / Colored light plays
Curator:
Andreas Hapkemeyer
Art Direction exhibition design:
Claudia Polizzi
Visual Communication and design:
Claudia Polizzi
Production:
Matthias Pötz and Ada Keller
Font:
Werk, Trultytype
Foto:
Lineematiche – L. Guadagnini / T. Sorvillo
Exhibition views, Museion Bozen/Bolzano, 12.04. – 03.11.2019
© Museion Bozen/Bolzano.
Ludwig Hirschfeld-Mack: Colored light plays
To celebrate the centenary of Bauhaus (1919–2019), Museion made a show of a Bauhaus artist Ludwig Hirschfeld-Mack (1893–1965). He developed a Light-playing apparatus in 1923/24, one of the earliest works of art with moving electric light. Light plays bridge the fields of painting, film, theater and light sculpture. For the first time, they set in motion forms and colors that are static in painting, using projections of colored light. Most of Hirschfeld-Macks light plays were accompanied by music.
The concept of the exhibition project starts from the complex scores that were intended to direct the movements of the lights and shapes that created the forms. The room chosen to house the documentation is the space that Museion usually uses to exhibit its archive of artist's books. The shelving of the bookcase was therefore a constraint. However, by studying the artist's archive and the specific scores, it was easy to create an analogy between the rhythm of the shelves and the panels chosen and designed to accommodate the textual and visual content.
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2019
Title:
Ludwig Hirschfeld-Mack.
Farbenlichtspiele / Spettacoli di luce colorata / Colored light plays
Curator:
Andreas Hapkemeyer
Art Direction exhibition design:
Claudia Polizzi
Visual Communication and design:
Claudia Polizzi
Production:
Matthias Pötz and Ada Keller
Font:
Werk, Trultytype
Foto:
Lineematiche – L. Guadagnini / T. Sorvillo
Exhibition views, Museion Bozen/Bolzano, 12.04. – 03.11.2019
© Museion Bozen/Bolzano.
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Claudia Polizzi – Graphic Design Studio
P. IVA 02835190212
studio@claudiapolizzi.com
Via Montetondo, 1
39100 Bolzano-Bozen
© Copyright 2023 Claudia Polizzi – Graphic Design Studio. All rights reserved.